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Recent Examples of incivility Then, acts of incivility are clearer, or less open to interpretation. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2025 Workplace incivility caused by team members, patients, patients' families and others is a significant contributor to burnout. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025 This year's trip to Thailand was an exercise in incivility and taboo-breaking, a cacophonous symphony of troubled souls colliding amid Mai Tais and monkeys. Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 12 June 2025 Link added that this incivility is costing companies in all areas: employee well-being, performance and retention, internal culture, belonging and engagement, and broader economic capabilities. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for incivility
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incivility
Noun
  • The problem isn’t that my girlfriend wouldn’t get to go, but the disrespect and dishonesty of uninviting her out of the blue and trying to cover it up as being a genuine mistake.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • That’s disrespect of a two-time champion.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But yes, Miss Manners agrees that his rudeness justifies your ignoring his comment.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But Takaichi has taken the strongest stances, decrying the rudeness of foreign tourists and accusing them of abusing the famous deer in Nara.
    Arata Yamamoto, NBC news, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Incivility.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incivility. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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