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politeness

noun as in courtesy

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However, this hasn't stopped political commentators from stressing that politeness and civility are “what the country has been saying they want more of.”

From Salon

And forget all of his usual outward politeness.

If brat described our wild and unapologetically messy summers, then exemplary manners, politeness and being a stickler for rules is what's taking us into autumn.

From BBC

He credits politeness, but also writes that "Mostly, though, we all know that we’re standing on the rim of an endlessly deep hole and that if we look down we might fall in."

From Salon

She and my mother were very impressed with their politeness as they addressed them by “Ma’am” at least once in every sentence.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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