Marked by refinement in taste and manners.
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Examples for "polite "
Examples for "polite "
1 In as polite and well accessorized a way as possible, of course.
2 No one mentioned the case to him, nothing but empty, polite talk.
3 Energy companies want more than a polite conversation with the prime minister.
4 And I said, 'Thank you for supper,' because that is being polite .
5 Wouldn't it be polite to let me ask the questions, Ms. Creed?
1 This research strategy also cultivated an environment that encouraged open, non-judgmental dialogue.
2 She had taken office with American support, and she cultivated American connections.
3 Troops reportedly heard gunshots before they arrived at the large cultivated area.
4 What origins his cultivated speech left in doubt, his physical appearance demonstrated.
5 This number is declining, as is the area of land being cultivated .
1 I believe they've made great inroads towards becoming a civilized nation recently.
2 In civilized countries everyone but the pariahs carried a pocket receiving set.
3 The savage has only impulse; the civilized man has impulses and ideas.
4 For a civilized society, I think it's extraordinary that we allow that.
5 Nothing worse in Central America; nothing worse where civilized degeneracy disgraces savagery.
1 It was clear the family was a very cultured family, Rubin said.
2 FLDCs were obtained, enriched, and cultured under Good Manufacturing Practice grade conditions.
3 This region contains several DNA regions with enhancer activity in cultured cells.
4 Results: Testicular cells could be cultured and propagated up to 15 weeks.
5 The data was in a good agreement with that from cultured cells.
1 A fair tax regime is essential in any civilised and equitable society.
2 The consequences of this argument would be unacceptable to any civilised society.
3 You just can't picture that question being posed in a civilised society.
4 It is certainly way beyond what any civilised community should find acceptable.
5 Both are worthy objectives of any civilised society in the modern age.
1 Her neck was short; and she was not in the least genteel .
2 He was courteous in manners, and in general appearance, genteel and good-looking.
3 I came from a genteel family of radical tendencies and modest means.
4 While Auden does much the same with the less genteel 'Miss Gee':
5 For something more genteel , local artists in Bury hold open studio sessions.
6 It wears the half-civilized and shabby genteel garments of a sawed-off town.
7 Those are fighting words, in the ordinarily genteel world of defense contracting.
8 The interior of Cannon-street Chapel has a spacious and somewhat genteel appearance.
9 Very genteel , indeed; though he might have taken more notice of me.
10 Frontinus described the Emperor with my brother's word, which was not genteel .
11 Gaga even affected the infantile and lisped through excess of genteel deportment.
12 Even the Eolian, genteel as it was, saw its share of scuffles.
13 In those days that was considered a genteel occupation, honorable and well-paid.
14 In Rugova it will find a genteel , compliant, respectable and submissive partner.
15 The gentlewoman herself chose to attend so genteel and lovely a guest.
16 The inside of the chapel is plain, very neat, and quite genteel .
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