INCIVILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incivility mean? 

• INCIVILITY (noun)
  The noun INCIVILITY has 1 sense:

1. deliberate discourtesy

  Familiarity information: INCIVILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCIVILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deliberate discourtesy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("incivility" is a kind of...):

discourtesy; rudeness (a manner that is rude and insulting)

Antonym:

civility (formal or perfunctory politeness)

 Context examples 

Was not this some excuse for incivility, if I was uncivil?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I will say so much for you, though you have had the incivility to call me a beggar.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She could almost be angry herself at such angry incivility; but she checked the resentful sensation; she remembered her own ignorance.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

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.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I'm not a doctor only; I'm a magistrate; and if I catch a breath of complaint against you, if it's only for a piece of incivility like tonight's, I'll take effectual means to have you hunted down and routed out of this.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

"What, me!" I ejaculated, beginning in his earnestness—and especially in his incivility—to credit his sincerity: me who have not a friend in the world but you—if you are my friend: not a shilling but what you have given me?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was not within at the time; but I heard of it from Eleanor, and she has been wishing ever since to see you, to explain the reason of such incivility; but perhaps I can do it as well.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

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?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Consoled by this resolution, she was the better able to bear her husband's incivility; though it was very mortifying to know that her neighbours might all see Mr. Bingley, in consequence of it, before they did.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)