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incivility

[in-suh-vil-i-tee] / ˌɪn səˈvɪl ɪ ti /


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Newly appointed "60 Minutes" executive producer Nick Bilton said Pelley "hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt."

From Barron's ● Jun. 3, 2026

Dan Bubb, an aviation historian and professor at University of Nevada Las Vegas, told the BBC that, despite the rise in incivility cases, statistically that number wasn't very significant.

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025

This weekend’s incivility could be a sign that golf is losing its traditional decorum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2025

Despite the city's reputation for incivility, it takes a lot to push New Yorkers to outright rejection.

From Salon ● Feb. 29, 2024

That’s entitlement: his mother permits that casual incivility because she wants him to learn to assert himself with people in positions of authority.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

We are starting to realize that the bystander effect — seeing something but saying nothing when we witness incivilities or worse — is as dangerous as the attacks themselves.

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2022

Her poem is double-distilled, and composed as if from ice shavings and incivilities.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2020

Inhabitants of big U.S. cities are also assaulted by what Fred DuBow, a visiting scholar at the American Bar Foundation, calls "incivilities."

From Time Magazine Archive

The English, of all other nations the most superstitious worshippers of fashion, are, nevertheless, accustomed to manifest a strange indulgence for the incivilities which this goddess encounters from their performers.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook

It seems to me that the officials ought to specially and urgently request the public to report unworded affronts and incivilities.'

From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain




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