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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

These are some of the incivilities, not by any means the most revolting, but such as I dare reproduce, of this literary warfare.

From Milton by Pattison, Mark

Railroad superintendents may justly be blamed for the incivilities of their subordinates.

From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by Larrabee, William