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Uncivil vs Currish - What's the difference?

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Uncivil is a related term of currish.


As adjectives the difference between uncivil and currish

is that uncivil is not civilized; savage; barbarous; uncivilized while currish is pertaining to a cur or mongrel.

uncivil

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not civilized; savage; barbarous; uncivilized.
  • Not civil; not complaisant; discourteous; impolite; rude; unpolished; as, uncivil behavior.
  • * 2007 , The Times , 24 Dec 2007:
    • John Terry and Frank Lampard would not have reacted as the Nigerian did to the (admittedly X-rated) challenge that led to the Liverpool forward being sent off in last week’s Carling Cup quarter-final against Chelsea. All very dangerous, all very uncivil .
  • * 2008 , New York Times , 4 Feb 2008:
    • But since you probably weren’t there, and be thankful for that, here is a quick primer on local, uncivil civics so that you might appreciate the recent political clamor in this part of eastern Tennessee.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * incivil

    References

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    currish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.
  • Ignoble, mean-spirited.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.4:
    • more enfierced through his currish play, / Him sternely grypt, and haling to and fro, / To ouerthrow him strongly did assay […].
  • *, II.1.3:
  • *:God's vengeance, and all the plagues of Egypt come not upon us, since we are so currish one towards another, so respectless of God and our neighbours, and by our crying sins pull these miseries upon our own heads.

    • Synonyms

    * doggish