polite
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"We've been brought up with this ridiculous 'good girl' stuff… indoctrinated in this idea of being good, polite, kind, thoughtful, caring," she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
“They are so polite; I get tired of being called ‘ma’am.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The polite reviewerese for this kind of writing is “workmanlike,” and it often feels like work to get through it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
A couple years before Pinterest delivered this revelation to me, chef Roy Choi gave me another version of the same permission — only a little less polite.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
“Polite too. Sparkle, did you hear how polite this one is?” she shouts back.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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
And the video has so many star cameos it feels like a politer version of that misbegotten cover of “Imagine.”
From Slate ● Jun. 12, 2020
"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
‘Don’t believe what strangers say of themselves either! I am not a fighter. But it would be politer in any case for the challenger to say who he is.’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Describing the comments, Evans continued: "The comment thread was 'traitors', 'taxis for migrants', they were some of the politest ones."
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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
“Not at all. Hank is the politest kid I’ve ever met, and Boo is a hoot,” Ray says.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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