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The name J. Edgar Hoover has become synonymous with slander, intrigue, pettiness and uncivility.

From Time Magazine Archive

The young Kaiser felt a little huffed; and signified to Friedrich that he would find a time to make good this bit of uncivility, which his pedagogues had forced upon him.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Carlyle, Thomas