polite
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A polite middle-aged man raised my hood, duct-taped the hose, and followed me as I limped to a service station.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
It has also tapped into the much-debated question of whether we should be curt or polite when using generative AI tools.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
"We've been brought up with this ridiculous 'good girl' stuff… indoctrinated in this idea of being good, polite, kind, thoughtful, caring," she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
He was big and broad, like an offensive tackle, with an army haircut and a polite attentiveness that suggested he was just here to take orders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
He wanted her to see him being polite.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
And the video has so many star cameos it feels like a politer version of that misbegotten cover of “Imagine.”
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2020
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
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
“I’d be politer, if I was you, to the man with the glamry blade.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Describing the comments, Evans continued: "The comment thread was 'traitors', 'taxis for migrants', they were some of the politest ones."
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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
Castellanos is emblematic of these Phillies in that he is more slugger than defender, in the politest of terms.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2022
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
They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade,
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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