comity
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Unlike today’s comity among most European leaders, wartime distrust lingered and cooperation proved elusive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
I’ve learned over the years that what’s mine is yours and usually likewise in the spirit of hiker comity.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
This is in keeping with Fellowes’ penchant for purveying a fantasy of class relationships foregrounded by unforced comity and respect.
From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025
Those predictions, however, have usually been followed by renewed signs of comity between the two men.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2025
There was much argument, and those sensations of fraternity and comity which at first brought our Regiment together at our dances gave way, I fear, to anger: “What signifies that?”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing comity
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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