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
• When there’s such incivility, there’s no room for compromise.
  — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 16 July 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024