as in disrespect
rude behavior
I won't tolerate incivility, and that includes text messaging while I'm speaking
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Recent Examples of incivility
If customer incivility is rising, businesses should ask whether cutting services, bringing chatbots into the mix and ignoring complaints are showing up on the bottom line.
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Dave Lieber
jan. 8, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026
Some travelers believe airlines contribute to incivility by treating passengers poorly.
—Zach Wichter, USA Today, 20 Nov. 2025
In fact, the SHRM research showed that employees of companies with a RTO mandate reported 63% more acts of workplace incivility than those without a mandate.
—Susan Caminiti, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
In a workshop in Kuri, a Rozan volunteer uses a sequence of drawings to show how one act of incivility can set off a chain reaction that ends up permeating every level of society.
—Hasan Ali, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2025
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Dave Lieber
jan. 8, Dallas Morning News, 8 Jan. 2026
Some travelers believe airlines contribute to incivility by treating passengers poorly.
—Zach Wichter, USA Today, 20 Nov. 2025
In fact, the SHRM research showed that employees of companies with a RTO mandate reported 63% more acts of workplace incivility than those without a mandate.
—Susan Caminiti, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
In a workshop in Kuri, a Rozan volunteer uses a sequence of drawings to show how one act of incivility can set off a chain reaction that ends up permeating every level of society.
—Hasan Ali, Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for incivility
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incivility
Noun
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The idea is a partial and symbolic sharing, and the purpose is to break the link between hard work and disrespect.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
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Historical novelists are often charged with disrespect and unseriousness, of ransacking the archives for sensational scenery to hang behind their conventional family sagas and love stories.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
Noun
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Comprising classmates Nilsson, Nutt, James Falconer, Suellen Rocca, Art Green, and Karl Wirsum, the Who held their first exhibition at Chicago’s Hyde Park Art Center in 1966, ushering a new mode of dank, bawdy rudeness into the city’s milieu.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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But these days civility, much like rudeness, can ride a stream of shares and retweets to the far corners of the world.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
1 June 2026
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“Incivility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incivility. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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