incivility
noun
the quality or condition of being uncivil; discourteous behavior or treatment.
incivilities
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pluralof incivility.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
The other tenants stopped on the stairs to exchange civilities or incivilities with equal warmth; they hung out of windows or dawdled sociably in doorways.
From Calvary Alley by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
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 Mark Pattison
