polite
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Debretts, an etiquette consultancy, says a good automatic reply should be polite and concise, give a specific return date, and provide another point of contact if appropriate.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Modifying weights can make a model more polite, sassier or more prone to hallucination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
His tone remained polite, but he was panicking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Some will say yes enthusiastically, and others will say yes because they’re being polite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
According to Washington’s grandson, Frank was “the most polite and accomplished of all butlers.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Bravo responded with a politer version in “Top Chef.”
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2026
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
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
The journalist Stanley Booth, in his book “The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones,” about the glory and the depravity of the band’s 1969 American tour, described Watts as “the world’s politest man.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
“That is about the politest way you could put it.”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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