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Noun
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Regardless of your intentions, performing extra chores beyond cleaning up after yourself can be perceived as a sign of respect or rudeness.—
Tessa Cooper,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 May 2025 -
Gone was the discord and rudeness that is often synonymous with the Big Apple.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
25 May 2025
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No disrespect to Webb either, but the Dodgers-Giants rivalry demands that this dramatic pennant race not end without the teams facing each other.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
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Rarely are signs of disrespect and arrogance brushed aside — especially if that player doesn’t possess elite skills, which most NFL talent evaluators agree, young Sanders does not.—
Mike Jones,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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At least seven different civilian complaints have been lodged against the sergeant, alleging excessive force, discourtesy and abuse of authority.—
Shayla Colon,
New York Times,
11 Dec. 2024
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At least seven different civilian complaints have been lodged against the sergeant, alleging excessive force, discourtesy and abuse of authority.—
Shayla Colon,
New York Times,
11 Dec. 2024
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This nonsense all tracks back to a May 9 visit Baraka, McIver and other members of Congress made to a New Jersey immigration detention center.—
Chris Brennan,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Stop this nonsense [or] your executives and employees will see the same fate… Make the correct decision and pay the ransom.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
20 May 2025
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And North also has a rejoinder for this year’s face-off.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
People.com,
27 May 2025
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At the Fox upfronts on Monday, May 12, the former New England Patriots tight end had an unexpected rejoinder after a fellow presenter on stage joked about Rupert Murdoch’s first upfront.—
Anna Lazarus Caplan,
People.com,
13 May 2025
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Chen dives into this conceit with the audacity required to make the project compelling.—
Isle McElroy,
Vulture,
21 May 2025
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To this day one of the great race-melodramas, Micheaux’s silent-era masterwork still shocks with its formal audacity and searing political clarity.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
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What sets even Milosz’s early poems of exile and displacement apart is his talent for burying an appalled stringency beneath sentimental guff.—
William Logan,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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But Pagano also wouldn’t put up with any guff.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
22 Jan. 2025
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The play found its voice through the Broadway developmental process, and Metcalf’s imprint is unmistakable in the rhythms of Nora’s whirligig monologues and bracing retorts.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2025
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Wait a second, the retort goes, the old-time adage is that to the victor go the spoils.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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“Tactlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tactlessness. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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