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cucurbitaceous
  • a  of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae
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cuddlesome
  • s  inviting cuddling or hugging
    a cuddlesome baby
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horary
  • a  relating to the hours
    the horary cycle
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citywide
  • s  occurring or extending throughout a city
    citywide bussing
    a citywide strike
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civic
  • a  of or relating or belonging to a city
    civic center
    civic problems
  • a  of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals
    civic duties
    civic pride
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civil
  • s  applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military
    civil authorities
  • a  not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others
    even if he didn't like them he should have been civil"- W.S. Maugham
  • a  of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state
    civil affairs
    civil strife
    civil disobedience
    civil branches of government
  • a  of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals
    civil rights
    civil liberty
  • a  (of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life
    the civil calendar
    a civil day begins at mean midnight
  • s  of or in a condition of social order
    civil peoples
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civil-libertarian
  • s  having or showing active concern for protection of civil liberties protected by law
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civilian
  • n  a nonmilitary citizen
  • a  associated with civil life or performed by persons who are not active members of the military
    civilian clothing
    civilian life
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civilised
  • v  teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
  • v  raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
  • a  having a high state of culture and development both social and technological
  • s  marked by refinement in taste and manners
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