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 left-wing incivility has been around before Donald Trump and around for a while.
    Fox News, 1 July 2018
  • But this kind of incivility always strikes me as so…creepy.
    Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 10 July 2019
  • The rising presence of incivility tells us the threat is already here.
    Jan Bruce, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • It’s not a place where incivility has become part of daily life.
    Washington Post, 10 May 2022
  • For others, the grass is even browner elsewhere: Their only options are jobs that pay far less or at places where the incivility is worse.
    Robert Sutton, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The study didn’t place any moral judgments on Twitter incivility, Willer said.
    Melanie Masonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Those competing instincts – incivility and how to deal with it – played out in the Aug. 5 brawl and its aftermath.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • The school, though, had 409 instances of student incivility, which ranked near the bottom of Gwinnett’s high schools, according to the state data.
    Eric Stirgus, ajc, 11 May 2017
  • 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
  • Well, and think about all the ads that are run by the very people who are denouncing all of the incivility in Washington, only 20% of all ads run are positive ads.
    NBC News, 18 June 2017
  • The nastiness and incivility that can ensue has been a big turnoff for many onetime blog readers.
    Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2011
  • 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
  • Joining me now is Fox News contributor Mark Thiessen with a slightly different take on the recent incivility on the left.
    Fox News, 1 July 2018
  • Yet the videos also say something important about the state of incivility in America.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The blame for Wednesday’s shooting rests entirely on the shooter, not on either side’s incivility.
    Stephen Carter, Twin Cities, 16 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Civility starts at the top — and Trump’s behavior only encourages both his allies and foes to use the same kind of incivility against each other.
    Chuck Todd, NBC News, 25 June 2018
  • Activists on the left responded that Trump is a champion of incivility.
    Anthony Man, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 July 2018
  • Obama’s posts had an average incivility score of 13.4, which remained fairly steady over his two terms.
    Melanie Masonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Keeping our eyes trained on the middle will be even more important during the maelstrom of hot takes, incivility and anger that will follow Facebook's decision about Trump.
    Christopher A. Bail, CNN, 4 May 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many voters can’t forget the first 2020 debate, which stood out for its incivility and interruptions.
    The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2024
  • When there’s such incivility, there’s no room for compromise.
    Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 16 July 2019

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