polite

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

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

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

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

"She could never believe how Freddie had such beautiful manners and he was always so deferential and polite and how his trousers were always immaculately creased," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

I let out a little one to be polite.

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman

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

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

Although Harry watched his two friends more closely over the next few days, Ron and Hermione did not seem any different except that they were a little politer to each other than usual.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

Castellanos is emblematic of these Phillies in that he is more slugger than defender, in the politest of terms.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2022

"Good afternoon," I say in my politest voice.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman