discourtesy
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"Uttering such words under the guise of a 'joke' or humour does not mitigate this discourtesy displayed toward our women and a specific segment of our society," he wrote.
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
A vice foreign minister called in Chinese Ambassador to South Korea Xing Haiming and strongly protested what South Korea called "diplomatic discourtesy", the South Korean foreign ministry said in a statement.
From Reuters ● Apr. 20, 2023
Coast Guard vessel was denied permission to make a port call, another apparently intentional discourtesy.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
Between January 2017 and November 2020, 829 complaints, internal and external, were lodged against Tacoma police employees, most for unsatisfactory performance or discourtesy.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2022
The Indian Summer was within their grasp, gossip was silenced, discourtesy put down.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The movie chokes on its own dreary discourtesies.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2011
Many knowing Burmese were forced to hide a snicker when they heard that Chou had filed an official complaint about discourtesies appearing in the Burmese press.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it was the first air exposition that New York has had for almost eight years and 20,000 persons daily endured the active discourtesies of Grand Central Palace Exposition factotums to see the planes.
From Time Magazine Archive
You note the weaknesses of officialdom, the discourtesies, the disregard and lack of respect for the people.
From Time Magazine Archive
We had reached the Achilles Statue, and a hurried retrospect showed me the terrier some thirty paces away, exchanging discourtesies with an Aberdeen.
From Berry And Co. by Dornford Yates
