politeness
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Buckingham Palace hit back with a response, which although dressed in courtier-like politeness, was essentially saying the conversation had never happened like that.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
How often have I paid the price of politeness and let terrible people get away?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
There is a kind of professional politeness that demands we discuss each case in isolation so no one has to say aloud what the cumulative pattern reveals.
From Slate ● May 8, 2026
And too often we disdain politeness as phony rather than respect it as the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
“Which it is well beknown to yourself, Pip,” returned Joe, strengthening his former mixture of argumentation, confidence, and politeness, “that it were the wish of your own hart.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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