polite

Chastened and anxious, she’s determined to partake in a polite meal and then skedaddle before her feelings overwhelm her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

Texting first, to arrange a phone call, is now seen as the more polite approach.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

Fischer rushed through the backstage corridor onto the subtly flower-bedecked stage and was greeted by the polite applause of an audience of twenty-three hundred.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

"This is a politer was of saying 'hysteria,'" Traister tweeted.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 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

It seemed politer to sit still and to speak when he was spoken to.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

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

I’ll say one thing for “Knock at the Cabin”: M. Night Shyamalan may have made the politest — and the most provocative — home-invasion horror movie you’ll ever see.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023

“Not at all. Hank is the politest kid I’ve ever met, and Boo is a hoot,” Ray says.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko