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incivility

/in-suh-vil-i-tee/US // ˌɪn səˈvɪl ɪ ti //UK // (ɪnsɪˈvɪlɪtɪ) //

不文明行为,不文明现象,不文明的行为,不礼貌

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural in·ci·vil·i·ties for 2.

    • : the quality or condition of being uncivil; discourteous behavior or treatment.
    • : an uncivil act.

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Examples

  • Reinforce values such as honesty, kindness and respect A few of my students found the first presidential debate jarring and wanted to talk about the incivility.

  • Disagreement over this is fierce, sometimes degenerating into ludicrous levels of incivility.

  • From Argentina to Russia and countries in between, see similar on-set incivility in 10 televised scuffles over the past 25 years.

  • But just changing the party in control is not going to solve the problem of hyper-partisanship and escalating incivility.

  • Or is it revulsion at the offensive incivility of the process, at the arrogance of these youths?

  • Nothing will rebuke incivility in another so surely as perfect courtesy in your own manner.

  • Mrs. Berlinton listened, for she was incapable of incivility; though, weary and disgusted, she seldom made the smallest answer.

  • He behaved with almost equal incivility to the Princesse de Polignac, the obscurity of whose English origin was an offence to him.

  • An excellent friend of mine lays it down as a maxim, that habitual unpunctuality is positive incivility.

  • The incivility of mine adversaries was reproved; but my more heinous outrage was judged worthy of imprisonment.