incivility

Word origin

From Middle French incivilité, from Late Latin incivilitas (“incivility”), from Latin incivilis (“impolite, uncivil”), from in- (privative prefix) + civilis (“belonging to a citizen, civic, political, urbane, courteous, civil”) (from civis (“a citizen”)), equivalent to in- + civility.

Used in a sentence

• “Courtezan. How say you now? is not your husband mad? / Adriana. His incivility confirms no less.”

• “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 […]”

• “[S]he could not bear incivility to her guests, to young men in particular, […]”

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