The chauffeur's face had darkened, his voice was barely civil.

For the first time since I had known him, his voice was barely civil.

She put away that thought, anxious to counter her father's barely civil hauteur.

He's barely civil with me as it is.

Nonetheless, he had found it most difficult to be barely civil to this hated subordinate.

Being in it, it's barely civil to grumble at the Deity who sent them along here.

He was beginning to see that there was a deep respect between them, though they were barely civil to one another.

I am barely civil to him, and no more.

He had been barely civil since his arrival yesterday.

In any case, his mood didn't encourage it - he had a black look on his face and was barely civil to anyone.