nicety

No amount of nicety can get those things back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

“I’ll be home within the hour,” I told my husband, determined to keep the meeting quick and cordial, a professional nicety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2024

Many of those places, however, cost money to access — whether it’s a gym membership or the social nicety to buy a latte at a coffee shop.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2023

Accompanying foreign leaders on trips within China is a diplomatic nicety Xi deploys only occasionally, such as when he met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Xi’an in 2015.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023

I showed her to a nicety where I had seen her walking on the casks, that first old day, and she said, with a cold and careless look in that direction, “Did I?”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Such moments of barbed humor are infrequent in “Fatherland,” but Pawlikowski wields them like grenades, shattering the stifling niceties enveloping Thomas and Erika.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The public remarks from the two leaders have teemed with warm words and diplomatic niceties.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

"You can't play all sides. Enough of the niceties," he added.

From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026

Our test car included a long list of niceties that raise the CX-90’s competitive game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

After a while I noticed other niceties of his dress, the monogrammed cufflinks, the Italian loafers.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides