incivil

Pendant plus de dix ans, il a supporté un patron incivil.
For over a decade, he suffered an uncivil boss.
Ce qui est incivil pour l’un peut être parfaitement acceptable pour l’autre.
And what's uncivil to one person may be absolutely fine to another.
Dire de quelqu'un qu'il est incivil, l'accuser d'incivilité est une façon de communiquer qu'il a dépassé les bornes, que cela ne vaut même pas la peine d'engager le dialogue avec lui.
So to call someone uncivil, to accuse them of incivility, is a way of communicating that they are somehow beyond the pale, that they're not worth engaging with at all.
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