Words similar to polite

Example sentences for: polite

How can you use “polite” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

This is a polite way of saying that they don't want to be hung out to dry by a "neutral" or "sell" recommendation two months after they go public.
In an editorial Monday (once you're on the page, scroll down to read the piece), the Independent said it is now widely assumed that "the object of Western policy in Iraq is the removal of Saddam Hussein--a polite way of saying killing him, because it is hard to see how he might be dislodged otherwise."
There are a couple of credible candidates: The four-letter word for "vagina" remains off-limits in polite conversation (although that has more to do with feminism than with profanity), and the slang expression for those who engage in oral sex with males is not yet acceptable by the standards of office-meeting etiquette.
I couldn't watch it in real-time because I was co-hosting a party of 100 or so welcoming the new New York Times bureau chief in Houston to Texas, and not a single person here in Austin, where George W. Bush lives and governs, seemed even to know or care that he and the five other Republicans were having at it while we made polite conversation and munched mushroom rugalach.
Or just the opposite: Are they being polite by offering people another option without having to be told?