incivility
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnsɪˈvɪlɪti/
incivility
- (uncountable) The state#Noun|state of being uncivil; lack of courtesy; rudeness in manner.
- Synonyms: impoliteness
- c. 1589, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, Scene 4,
- Courtezan. How say you now? is not your husband mad?
- Adriana. His incivility confirms no less.
- 1668, David Lloyd, Memoires of the Lives, Actions, Sufferings, and Deaths of those Noble, Reverend, and Excellent Personages that suffered by Death, Sequestration, Decimation, and otherwise for the Protestant Religion, London: Samuel Speed, “The Life and Death of Robert Berkley,” p. 96,
- Beat on proud Billows, Boreas blow,
- Swell curled Waves, high as Jove’s roof,
- Your incivility doth show,
- That Innocence is tempest proof.
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 31,
- Little did Mr. Willoughby imagine, I suppose, when his looks censured me for incivility in breaking up the party, that I was called away to the relief of one whom he had made poor and miserable [...]
- 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Chapter 1,
- [...] she could not bear incivility to her guests, to young men in particular [...]
- (countable) Any act of rudeness or ill-breeding.
- 1632, George Sandys, Ovid’s Metamorphosis: Englished, mythologiz’d, and represented in figures, Oxford: John Lichfield, “Upon the Sixth Book of Ovids Metamorphosis,” p. 223,
- Latona, in her flight from Juno, is churlishly intreated by the Lycian pesants, and denied the publique benefit of water: for which incivility these bawling Clownes are changed into croaking froggs, and confined unto that Lake for ever.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Volume I, Letter 4, p. 26,
- Mr. Lovelace, for three days together, sent twice each day to inquire after my brother’s health; and, altho’ he received rude, and even shocking returns, he thought fit, on the fourth day, to make in person the fame inquiries; and received still greater incivilities from my two uncles, who happen’d to be both there.
- 1889, Sabine Baring-Gould, “A Face in the Dark” in Pennycomequicks, London: Spencer, Blackett & Hallam, Volume II, p. 54,
- When my poor Sidebottom was alive, if there had been any unpleasantness between us during the day [...] I have shaken him at night to wake him up, that he might receive my pardon for an incivility said or done.
- 1632, George Sandys, Ovid’s Metamorphosis: Englished, mythologiz’d, and represented in figures, Oxford: John Lichfield, “Upon the Sixth Book of Ovids Metamorphosis,” p. 223,
- (uncountable) Want of civilization; a state of rudeness or barbarism.
- German: unhöfliches Benehmen, Unhöflichkeit, Grobheit
- Spanish: incivilidad
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