considerateness
Example Sentences
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As his son notes, the one great drawback was lack of considerateness and good temper in his relations with his wife.
From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
We had been civil; not always that, my conscience told me, and never anything beyond; and all this to-do is a measure, not of our considerateness, 75 but of the want of it in others.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
This product of his exceptional courtesy and considerateness must have puzzled many people, taken in conjunction with his invariable avoidance of intercourse wherever that could be managed with politeness.
From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
But he was too close in spirit to the woman at his side not to divine a little how she shrank from this new considerateness that was own cousin to pity.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
For one so often finds that acts specially showing delicacy and considerateness, little supererogatory works of kindness, are taken unkindly.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
