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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

“Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt.”

From Los Angeles Times 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

She looked up at me, her eyes large with compassion, with understanding of the solitude and incivility of grief.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

"Believe me," said he, "no one could more regret than I the incivilities to which I am compelled."

From Clementina by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

The other tenants stopped on the stairs to exchange civilities or incivilities with equal warmth; they hung out of windows or dawdled sociably in doorways.

From Calvary Alley by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice




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