polite

Paramedics in Japan have a problem — polite homeowners rearranging their shoes.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

Carrick remained relaxed and polite but, without hesitation, answers reduced from their previously expanded form to single sentences, questions were asked in response to questions.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Modifying weights can make a model more polite, sassier or more prone to hallucination.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Since he was expecting a response, I was forced into being uncharacteristically polite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Not until Mom raises an eyebrow and says, “You’d better be more polite at dinner with the Reyeses tonight than you’re being with me. Or else there’ll be consequences.”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

An 18-year-old woman said ghosting was “a little bit politer way to reject someone than to directly say, ‘I do not want to chat with you.’

From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2022

They wield illusory credits and debits, pecuniary symbols of wealth, all the better to club their opponents into a politer businesslike submission.

From Salon ● Jan. 29, 2019

In fact, the politer our discourse is in general, the more dramatic the effect when breaking the rules of politeness becomes necessary.

From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2018

She admires various classical and modern dancers and choreographers and works, but her own dancers enact a brash and pitiless system of movement that disdains and subverts politer forms.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 22, 2015

Although Harry watched his two friends more closely over the next few days, Ron and Hermione did not seem any different except that they were a little politer to each other than usual.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

There are some wonderful communicators in this Scotland team but, in the politest sense, they're fed up communicating and are just desperate to start delivering.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

“The politest way is to enlist the aid of the flight attendants,” says Jodi RR Smith, an etiquette consultant.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

The journalist Stanley Booth, in his book “The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones,” about the glory and the depravity of the band’s 1969 American tour, described Watts as “the world’s politest man.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2021

When confronted about these statements by a reporter, McCain defended the use of the term, saying it was the politest term he could think of.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

And let’s face it, middle school students aren’t the politest people on the planet.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman