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polite

[puh-lahyt] / pəˈlaɪt /


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The response is positive and polite, and it’s exactly what review platforms and industry guides tell businesses they should say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The college added Jackson, who played for Hebburn Town Juniors and the club's U18s team, was a "polite, kind and funny young man", whose presence lifted others.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

"Although he was only at the school for one year to complete his S6 studies, he was a polite, respectful and hardworking young man," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

“They are so polite; I get tired of being called ‘ma’am.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

To be polite, he waited until the door was closed to look down at his palm.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

Bravo responded with a politer version in “Top Chef.”

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026

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

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

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 20-year-old said she had only positive interactions with some of the men who live at the hotel, who she describes as "the politest people".

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2025

“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

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

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

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver


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