Crossword clues for incivility
incivility
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 jests, loud talking and jeering, which, in civil account, are called indecencies and incivilities.
--Jer. Taylor. -
Lack of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism. [R.]
--Sir W. Raleigh.Syn: Impoliteness; uncourteousness; unmannerliness; disrespect; rudeness; discourtesy.
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 to public life, befitting a citizen; popular, affable, courteous" (see civil). Meaning "an act of rudeness" is from 1650s. Incivil "not conducive to common good" is from mid-15c.
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.
WordNet
n. deliberate discourtesy [ant: civility]
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 derived from the Latin incivilis, meaning "not of a citizen".
The distinction between plain rudeness, and perceived incivility as threat, will depend on some notion of civility as structural to society; incivility as anything more ominous than bad manners is therefore dependent on appeal to notions like its antagonism to the complex concepts of civic virtue or civil society. It has become a contemporary political issue in a number of countries.
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.