释义 |
civilityci‧vil‧i‧ty /səˈvɪləti/ noun formal - Our conversations were little more than just exchanging civilities.
- The annual meeting must be conducted with civility.
- Check any narrow-minded seriousness at the door with your urban trench coat and get ready for an absolute annihilation of bourgeois civility.
- He made no attempt at any civility, and left Elizabeth to do the talking.
- His early comedies might have been taken to represent an unheard-of civility from the back of beyond.
- Humanity has yet to evolve to a level of civility where arms are not required to achieve detente.
- I stood by the door and she sat there, making no pretence of civility, waiting for me to go.
- She addressed her young guest with civilities suitable for a personage of advanced years and uncertain appetite.
- There is no way to blame this on some broader deterioration of language and civility in our society.
- While assuming a pose of utmost civility and cordiality, Caroline is relentless in her campaign to undermine me.
1[uncountable] polite behaviour which most people consider normal → civil: Please have the civility to knock before you enter next time.2civilities [plural] something that you say or do in order to be polite: We exchanged civilities when we were neighbours, but nothing more. |