Significados de elaborately polite em inglês

We were elaborately polite, and we each made a meritorious effort to appear at our ease.

Nevertheless, he is elaborately polite.

The others were elaborately polite to him, and during the soup they talked of the weather and the political situation.

Tom was very polite to him, elaborately polite; but he left town very soon, and she seemed dazed....

It would seem easier, on the whole, to open a dictionary of quotations than to compose an elaborately polite letter, requesting to know who said-

She was vexed with him still, but it would have been stupid as well as ungrateful to show her annoyance except by being elaborately polite.

"Pardon me," he replied, adopting his most elaborately polite manner.

"Hump," he said to me, elaborately polite, "kindly take Mr. Mugridge's arm and help him up on deck.