comity
Example Sentences
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His many detractors should grant that his comments late Saturday at a White House press briefing hit the right notes of gratitude and comity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
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
State Department regularly brought African dignitaries to the city, to show the world that the stories in the sensationalist press about race problems in America were exaggerated or exceptions to the rule of racial comity.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Vocabulary lists containing comity
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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