nicety

Example Sentences

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Involving the people’s representatives in the decision is more than a constitutional nicety; it’s a key ingredient of success.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 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