politeness
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How often have I paid the price of politeness and let terrible people get away?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
She didn't usually drink coffee but when the interviewer, a senior civil servant called Christian Nègre, offered her one, she agreed out of politeness.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
There is a kind of professional politeness that demands we discuss each case in isolation so no one has to say aloud what the cumulative pattern reveals.
From Slate ● May 8, 2026
And too often we disdain politeness as phony rather than respect it as the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Minou hesitates, and then she says it right out, what Dedd suspects everyone has always wanted to ask her but which some politeness kept them from.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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