polite

A couple years before Pinterest delivered this revelation to me, chef Roy Choi gave me another version of the same permission — only a little less polite.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

"Where there is more of a grey area is with coughs and colds. Since Covid, workplace etiquette has changed - generally it's considered polite to work from home."

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

There’s a hard actuarial truth to age-gap planning — and that, in the polite words of adviser Matthew Chancey, is that “sooner or later, one of you is taxed as a single.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

From India to Indonesia, Mr. Van de Ven writes, “previously polite, elite nationalist murmurings soon gained large, passionate, and occasionally explosive followings.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

"I'm sure she'll behave herself during dinner, Jeremy. This is fairly important to your father, so I want you to be polite when they come."

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

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

She makes unreasonable public demands, he apologizes for her, and then he not-so-subtly reiterates those demands in a slightly politer tone.

From Slate ● May 9, 2019

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

‘Don’t believe what strangers say of themselves either! I am not a fighter. But it would be politer in any case for the challenger to say who he is.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Ebert, also 39, is the politest, a kind force who, 17 years later, remains the new guy after Johnson and Knobbe formed the band a year before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 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

You are, to put it in the politest terms, easily distracted.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2019

When he had no more to tell me, I thanked him in my politest French, and left.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver