niceties

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The Niceties A white female college professor clashes with an ambitious black female student in the West Coast premiere of Eleanor Burgess’ drama.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2019

Niceties attended to, we must stress that Friday’s meeting could mean everything, or nothing.

From Washington Times • Sep. 12, 2018

Niceties of phrasing, fatal slips of the tongue, seething demonstrations of verbal control—talk is expensive in these parts.

From Slate • Sep. 14, 2012

Napkin Niceties Once seated at dinner, when does one place the napkin in one’s lap, before or after the food arrives?

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2012

If the Hypothesis for the maine of it be found Rational; the Niceties of it are to be adjusted, in time, from particular Observation.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry