(a.) Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the fact that there is a serious disagreement between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom does not mean that you should then be discourteous or rude."
(2) Half of each sample rated the average driver in their age group and the average driver in the opposite age group as regarded thirty-three attitudes promoting safe driving, twenty courteous safe driving behaviors and eleven discourteous, unsafe driving behaviors.
(3) I’ve certainly never heard anything as discourteous from anyone who has visited our country – and I’ve heard a lot of things.
(4) A spokeswoman said: "There is a meeting between management and unions and we have nothing to say before then because it would be discourteous to the unions and the process we have been involved in."
(5) Only 51% expressed a dislike of any aspect of the clinic (long waits, 24%; discourteous staff, 19%; and lack of cleanliness, 5%).
(6) In Louisville, Kentucky , several distress calls had been made by Latino voters saying they had been treated discourteously by election officials and discouraged from voting.
(7) Garvey naggers on with a question so weirdly phrased it sounds a bit discourteous.
(8) He was right to apologise because being discourteous to the police is a bad thing.
(9) Your coverage of Tom Watson’s excellent speech (theguardian.com, 27 September) noted that he called on Labour to stop “trashing the record” of the Blair and Brown governments but failed to mention his leading role in the “coup” against Mr Blair in 2006, which hastened his resignation a year later, prompting him to describe Watson’s actions as “disloyal, discourteous and wrong” and a “totally unnecessary attempt to unseat the party leader, less than 15 months after our historic third term victory” .
(10) Data shows that younger drivers viewed older drivers as overly cautious, too slow to act and apt to cause accidents, and rated their peers as overly aggressive and discourteous.
(11) But, by and large, the discourteousness has not been reciprocated.
(12) Blair attacked the move as “disloyal, discourteous and wrong” and Watson himself resigned.
(13) Giddings said that although he did not believe he had undermined or personally criticised Welby, he had apologised to the archbishop, who had since told him he had found nothing offensive, discourteous, impolite or disrespectful in his words.
(14) The judges were also asked to assess whether in their opinion the letters were of value in teaching or were discourteous.
(15) Nonetheless, Shkreli’s short appearance in Washington became explosive when committee members were infuriated by his discourteous facial expressions as the event unfolded.
(16) When I identified as either "raised as Christian" or "without belief", I never received a discourteous response, and had only one individual attempt to convert me during a discussion in the back office of his market.
(17) McIntyre responded with formal requests to Tom Karl at the National Climate Data Centre, where he guessed the data would have been held, and to the journal, saying Santer's response had been "discourteous".
Uncivil
Definition:
(a.) Not civilized; savage; barbarous; uncivilized.
(a.) Not civil; not complaisant; discourteous; impolite; rude; unpolished; as, uncivil behavior.
Example Sentences:
(1) Uncivil Union Subtitled “comedy for equality”, this benefit raises money for the Ally Coalition and New Alternatives , charities focused on ending discrimination against the LGBTQ community and supporting LGBTQ youths.
(2) The uncivil war between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown often generated bad headlines – even when most journalists underappreciated just how toxic that relationship had become.
(3) Once again, the territory inhabited by the “uncivilized” has been shelled so the west can try out its new lethal toys.
(4) This suggests that no one should be surprised at uncivilized acts emanating from the country.” Sun enjoys enormous celebrity status in China , and his supporters were predictably disappointed when he lost to Horton in the 400m freestyle on Saturday.
(5) The wolf is something threatening now: the wild, unpredictable element in dogs; an uncivilized mirror of man; a pernicious competitor for livestock.
(6) Ahmadinejad's speech was unusually esoteric for a UN session and made only one political reference to Israel, when he denounced what he called the "hegemony of arrogance" of the world's dominant powers, and said the "continued threat by the uncivilized Zionists to resort to military action against our great nation is a clear example of this bitter reality".
(7) More than half reported an increase in uncivil political discourse, and more than a third observed an increase in anti-Muslim or anti-immigrant sentiment.
(8) Religion and race are [an] invention of the savage and uncivil people.” Wafi Chowdhury, a schoolfriend of Samad, said: “Nazim had lived in hostels since grade six and later moved to a shared room after he joined university.” Samad had deactivated his Facebook account about a month ago at the request of his family, but Chowdhury added: “I remember him telling me he would come back on Facebook soon with a grin.” Shamir Chandra Sutradhar, an investigations officer at Sutrapur police in Dhaka, told the Guardian: “His stay in Dhaka has been only two months.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cannes 2014: Mr Turner’s Timothy Spall: ‘I like to paint angels in anguish’ - video interview For those who know little about Turner’s life, it’s a jolt to accept that the creator of paintings of genius was a faulty bloke with an intermittently uncivil tongue, a tendency to grunt and a contradictory attitude towards women.
(10) Their contempt didn’t last long, and a new era of aerial warfare, especially against “uncivilized” peoples, began.
(11) But you won't forgive yourself if you set things up for a second generation of the Blair-Brown uncivil wars.