comity

Example Sentences

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Unlike today’s comity among most European leaders, wartime distrust lingered and cooperation proved elusive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

I’ve learned over the years that what’s mine is yours and usually likewise in the spirit of hiker comity.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

He’s no newcomer to political comity, and has always seemed sincere promoting it.

From Slate • Dec. 16, 2025

They likely shook hands as they left the New York Historical, where the episode was filmed, content to have participated in a demonstration that relative comity is possible . . . in Middlevania.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2025

There, I saw not only flare-ups of ethnic animosity, but the comity that was also possible among men of different backgrounds.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela