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Example sentences for: polite

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This term does not qualify as slang because it is a legitimate, formal term, rather easy to define denotatively, quite fit for use in polite company, and equally at home in written and spoken language.
A book about the extraordinary, if messy, career of the founder of Folkways Records wins polite reviews, but it's no masterpiece of biography.
Friends would thank me with polite puzzlement when I gave them great children's books I knew they'd love--then would tuck them away in the bookshelves for when their kids were a bit older.
The response No problem is probably intended as a sincere expression of willingness to serve, but it comes across as a polite way of saying, I don't really mind your having taken up my valuable time coping with the mentally and physically taxing demands imposed by your overbearing, though trivial request, because I am an accommodating, thoughtful person paid to occupy myself with major decisions concerning issues of earthshaking consequence, with but don't let it happen again implied.
The chairman of a congressional committee who calls upon "the gentle lady from Arkasota," while thinking, "you dumb hillbilly bitch," is polite but not civil in my sense.