polite

British people are far too polite to ever tell the truth about anything, which makes us all potential murderers.

"Under my leadership, the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines," he once said.

Soft-spoken, polite to waitstaff, engaged with each other without ever so much as glancing at a phone.

He shrugged off his previous criticism of the bank governor as "hopeless", telling reporters: "He's very polite, and the coffee was quite good."

Diaa, a middle-aged father and husband, was a polite host at his family home in one of the refugee camps in central Gaza.