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Deliberate discourtesy
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incivility
Word definitions for incivility in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incivility \In`ci*vil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Incivilities . [L. incivilitas: cf. F. incivilit['e].] The quality or state of being uncivil; lack of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness. --Shak. Tillotson. Any act of rudeness or ill breeding. Uncomely ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en uncountable) The quality or state of being uncivil; want of courtesy; rudeness of manner; impoliteness. 2 (label en countable) Any act of rudeness or ill-breeding. 3 (label en uncountable) Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Incivility is a general term for social behaviour lacking in civility or good manners , on a scale from rudeness or lack of respect for elders, to vandalism and hooliganism , through public drunkenness and threatening behaviour. The word "incivility" is ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS â–ª Sure, nearly 60 percent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "want of civilized behavior, rudeness," from French incivilité (early 15c.), from Late Latin incivilitatem (nominative incivilitas ), from incivilis "not civil," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + civilis "relating to a citizen, relating ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. deliberate discourtesy [ant: civility ]
Usage examples of incivility.
Buxted a stiff apology for this incivility he cordially agreed with Felix that the fellow was an encroaching windsucker, a prosy bore, and, probably, a slow-top into the bargain.
These courtesies to Haydn may perhaps be allowed to balance the apparent incivility shown to Beethoven and Weber, who sent compositions to the same royal amateur that were never so much as acknowledged.
Of course it was the camera they were interested in, that postlinear conversation piece, and they gathered around me in stages, introducing themselves, asking questions, being exceedingly friendly, secretly preparing their outrage for the moment of my incivility.
I can tell you, Herr Gouverneur, traveling from here to Kiev and back again, I have learned a good deal about Russian incivility and ineptitude.
Being more than a little piqued at the Incivility of one whose Celebrity made me solicitous of his Approbation, I ventur'd to retaliate in kind, and told him, I was surpris'd that a Man of Sense shou'd judge the Thoughtfulness of one whose Productions he admitted never having read.