polite

At Lilac Hill, a dead surface was observed by a smattering of polite onlookers, most of them ex-pats.

The modernist’s editor, whether the writer be novelist or poet, is unlikely to pose that polite question: Do you think you could make things a little easier to follow?

Most of these folks are so far gone, so permanently scarred with body modifications, that there’s no coming back to so-called polite society.

When I e-mailed Gutfreund to invite him to lunch, he could not have been more polite, or more gracious.

He thought it was "the polite thing to do" after being invited to the game by the Dodgers' owner.