comity
Example Sentences
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Unlike today’s comity among most European leaders, wartime distrust lingered and cooperation proved elusive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
I’ve learned over the years that what’s mine is yours and usually likewise in the spirit of hiker comity.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
He’s no newcomer to political comity, and has always seemed sincere promoting it.
From Slate • Dec. 16, 2025
It’s also possible to engage in probing conversations and push back against inconsistencies without abandoning any earned sense of comity with the other person.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2024
There was much argument, and those sensations of fraternity and comity which at first brought our Regiment together at our dances gave way, I fear, to anger: “What signifies that?”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing comity
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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