Words similar to politeness
Example sentences for: politeness
How can you use “politeness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
A people so justifiably famous for hospitality, politeness, and respect also produced an army whose brutality during its occupation of Southeast Asia during the war remains a stumbling block to “normal” international relations.
Miss Manners, when it comes right down to it, acknowledges that most citizens aren't at sea about standards of politeness at all, heterogeneous though our nation's standards may be.
who have no time for the fake politeness of this fatally genteel world" (Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (The official site offers tie-ins galore.)
I can make a clinical observation regarding the diminution of politeness in the language, attributable, perhaps, to the lowering of the standards of civility and yielding, typically, constructions like Me and her went to the park (as contrasted with Her and me went to the park, I suppose).
They created a Seattle in which icy politeness and neatly trimmed grass were the ultimate virtues.