polite

The hope is to become a "big fish" who mediates between the grunts and those with cash, maybe even entering polite society.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Worst case: blank stare, polite nonrecognition and the humiliation of realizing he doesn’t remember me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

I left our short chat feeling uplifted by how smiley and polite he was in daylight and while we were sober.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

It was pulled two years later because of “high cost, privacy concerns, and public confusion about its purpose” — a polite rewording of “I look like a dork and everyone thinks I’m awful.”

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026

This does not mean that the political history of the early republic can be understood as a polite forensic exercise conducted by a marvelously well-behaved collection of demigods.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

An 18-year-old woman said ghosting was “a little bit politer way to reject someone than to directly say, ‘I do not want to chat with you.’

From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2022

In fact, the politer our discourse is in general, the more dramatic the effect when breaking the rules of politeness becomes necessary.

From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2018

"This is a politer was of saying 'hysteria,'" Traister tweeted.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2018

She admires various classical and modern dancers and choreographers and works, but her own dancers enact a brash and pitiless system of movement that disdains and subverts politer forms.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 22, 2015

“I’d be politer, if I was you, to the man with the glamry blade.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

There are some wonderful communicators in this Scotland team but, in the politest sense, they're fed up communicating and are just desperate to start delivering.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

Ebert, also 39, is the politest, a kind force who, 17 years later, remains the new guy after Johnson and Knobbe formed the band a year before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026

“The politest way is to enlist the aid of the flight attendants,” says Jodi RR Smith, an etiquette consultant.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

This was an extended hand from a man I have come to think of as my politest critic.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2019

And let’s face it, middle school students aren’t the politest people on the planet.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman