How to Use incivility in a Sentence

incivility

noun
  • We chose to ignore their little insults and incivilities.
  • I won't tolerate incivility, and that includes text messaging while I'm speaking.
  • The incivility and loss of trust both point to the fragility of our democracy.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2022
  • The rising presence of incivility tells us the threat is already here.
    — Jan Bruce, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • And maybe, this can help lower the amount of incivility in the workplace for everyone.
    — Joyce E. A. Russell, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • When there’s such incivility, there’s no room for compromise.
    — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 16 July 2019
  • The nastiness and incivility that can ensue has been a big turnoff for many onetime blog readers.
    — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2011
  • And at a time when public incivility appears to be rising, some have wondered whether cameras are part of the problem.
    — Blake Nelsonstaff Reporter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The study didn’t place any moral judgments on Twitter incivility, Willer said.
    — Melanie Masonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • This specific brand of rhetoric is just one of many factors fueling incivility.
    — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2021
  • But perhaps most worrisome is the effect of all this growing incivility.
    — William Wan, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
  • One of the reasons for the incivility and rancor in this country is that people do not trust the media to report without an agenda.
    — Star Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Activists on the left responded that Trump is a champion of incivility.
    — Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2018
  • Their own incivility and rage falsely escalate too many political disputes to matters of life and death.
    — David French, National Review, 23 Jan. 2018
  • However, the most egregious act of incivility came from a red truck that pushed itself into the middle of the procession and laid on its horn for minutes on end.
    — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 19 Aug. 2020
  • But most of the bad consumer behavior is low-grade — a persistent hum of incivility rather than an explosion of violence.
    — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Yet the videos also say something important about the state of incivility in America.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In today’s work environment, leaders cannot afford to lose time and talent due to the ripple effects of incivility.
    — Sandy Harvey, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Strubler, a consultant to corporations, said incivility has been on the rise in companies in recent years.
    — Carol Cain, Detroit Free Press, 31 Oct. 2020
  • The blame for Wednesday’s shooting rests entirely on the shooter, not on either side’s incivility.
    — Stephen Carter, Twin Cities, 16 June 2017
  • And this kind of incivility is fine for liberals who think that the government has to regulate every part of social, cultural and civic life.
    — Fox News, 27 June 2018
  • Many of the claims were based on deepfake material that tried to accuse candidates of terrorism and incivility.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 13 May 2023
  • If that behavior were to become more commonplace, the type of incivility that often leads to violence would find little place to flourish.
    — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2017
  • The few remedial powers that the federal courts possess over their own judges are not designed to address rudeness or incivility.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Emerging research supports the latter idea—that people who stand up to incivility have a strong sense of altruism, combined with self-confidence.
    — Daisy Grewal, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
  • In several instances, when people of color complained about this and other racist or offensive posts, they’d been accused of incivility and thrown out of their groups.
    — WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The whole world is astounded and distressed at the incivility of American public discourse.
    — Conrad Black, National Review, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Piersall’s brief moment of self-indulgence back then was but a blip compared with the massive inundation of incivility we’re all subjected to these days.
    — Kenneth Lasson, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2024
  • While incivility has been on full display at recent Board of Supervisors meetings, the recent meeting hit a new low.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2021
  • Thanks to the speed, scale and design of our technological and media ecosystems, trash talk — in the form of incivility — has never had a wider or more instantaneous reach.
    — Greg Hanlon, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023

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