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32 examples of Incivility in a sentence

Over three out of five Americans think we have a major incivility problem in our country right now, but I'm going to guess that at least three out of five Americans are clicking on the same insult-oriented, rumor-mongering trash that feeds the nastiest impulses in our society.
I study the effects of incivility on people.
What is incivility?
But just a couple years later, I witnessed and experienced a lot of incivility in my first job out of college.
We believed that incivility affected performance and the bottom line.
And what we found is that incivility made people less motivated: 66 percent cut back work efforts, 80 percent lost time worrying about what happened, and 12 percent left their job.
Cisco read about these numbers, took just a few of these and estimated, conservatively, that incivility was costing them 12 million dollars a year.
With Amir Erez, I compared those that experienced incivility to those that didn't experience incivility.
And what we found is that those that experience incivility do actually function much worse.
Incivility is a bug.
And this happens not only if we experience incivility or we witness it.
So if incivility has such a huge cost, why do we still see so much of it?
There will always be some outliers that succeed despite their incivility.
Incivility chips away at people and their performance.
In every interaction, think: Who do you want to be? Let's put an end to incivility bug and start spreading civility.
Because the funny thing about incivility is that it's always the sin of our opponents.
We're told that civility is simply a synonym for respect, for good manners, for politeness, but at the same time, it's clear that to accuse someone of incivility is much, much worse than calling them impolite, because to be uncivil is to be potentially intolerable in a way that merely being rude isn't.
So to call someone uncivil, to accuse them of incivility, is a way of communicating that they are somehow beyond the pale, that they're not worth engaging with at all.
But those accusations of incivility pretty soon became pretexts for persecution.
According to a study by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, there has been less incivility in Congress in recent years than in the 1990’s or the 1940’s.
Urbanization is blamed for a wide variety of modern social ills, ranging from crime and incivility to alienation and anomie.
Our civilization, despite its drugs, prostitution, alcoholism, incivility, and vandalism, will always be better than rule by Mullahs or soldiers, because its social problems can be allayed, if never entirely eliminated, without changing the foundations of the regime.
Nor is the use of abusive language just a matter of incivility – a common occurrence in democratic discourse, on all sides, despite informal rules (“my honorable friend”) to disguise it.
Then there are the shockwaves from Bolsonaro’s victory in Brazil’s presidential election last year, which brought an end to the country’s long-standing center-left consensus and ushered in a new regime of cronyism and incivility.
It was rare that the incivility was direct, but Julien had already overheard at table two or three brief little passages between the Marquis and his wife, wounding to those who were placed near them.
They then lay to, and lowering a skiff or boat, as many as a dozen Frenchmen, well armed with match-locks, and their matches burning, got into it and came alongside; and seeing how few we were, and that our vessel was going down, they took us in, telling us that this had come to us through our incivility in not giving them an answer.
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; but HAD he known it, what would it have availed?
For Marianne, however--in spite of his incivility in surviving her loss--he always retained that decided regard which interested him in every thing that befell her, and made her his secret standard of perfection in woman;--and many a rising beauty would be slighted by him in after-days as bearing no comparison with Mrs. Brandon.
Is not general incivility the very essence of love?""Oh, yes!--of that kind of love which I suppose him to have felt.
Was not this some excuse for incivility, if I _was_ uncivil?