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polite English

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What does polite mean?
Definitions in simple English

polite

If you are polite, you treat people nicely and follow the social rules of your group. It's not polite to take something without asking. Parents have to teach their children to be polite. Susie is more polite than her sister Cindy. Susie is the most polite child I have ever met.

polite

showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc (= cultivated, cultured, genteel) marked by refinement in taste and manners cultivated speech cultured Bostonians cultured tastes a genteel old lady polite society (= civil) not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others even if he didn't like them he should have been civil — W.S. Maugham

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Polite English » English

well-mannered polite high-minded civilized

Topics polite topics

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Simple sentences

Magdalena is very polite to me.
Be polite to everyone.
I was just being polite.
I'm just being polite.
You could at least try to be a bit more polite, even though it's not like you.
You should try to be more polite.
It was just polite applause.
You must be more polite.
It is not very polite, either.
Mr Smith is too polite to say anything bad about others.
Working part-time at a supermarket, I found that some customers were polite whereas others weren't.
The English are a polite people.
Polite language, in a sense, spoils a casual atmosphere.
I find just the memory of his overly polite patronizing manner really offensive.
It's not polite to speak with your mouth full.
Tony is a polite boy.
That nurse is very kind and polite.
The little girl made a polite bow to me.
It is polite to open doors for people.
It isn't polite to stare at people.
It's not polite to point at others.
It is not polite to interrupt someone while he is talking.

Movie subtitles

And when she arrived, she was very polite and courteous, wearing a dress that she'd made for the occasion.
You've got to be polite to him.
He sits across the table and watches me cold, polite, merciless.
You are a polite young lady, if I may.
I was being polite.
You, polite?
Yes, polite.
Well, I suppose I should be polite.
Gyp, it ain't polite to interfere with family quarrels.
Toto, thats not polite!
Do you think it would be polite, dropping in like this?
Be polite to him, he is my son.
In my opinion, it's one of the first refinements of a polite society.
Oh, please don't be polite.
You were always polite, Doc.
Therefore, with this Spaniard, you must be polite but reserved.
He was holding my waist to be polite.
I'm not allowed to be polite with the ladies anymore?
I hope this means I'm accepted in polite society.
How exquisitely polite!
It's best, if we appear all quiet and humble, and are nice and polite to the people.
I'll teach you to be polite!
If I shouted into your ears, for example, to teach you to be polite, if I shouted like this.
I don't get the sense of it, but it don't sound polite.
Can't you be polite?
They were very polite.
Your nephew's polite, treating me like a beggar!
I wanna be polite.
IT ISN'T VERY POLITE.
And this is Sheriff Watson. You've got to be polite to him.
The papers I signed were. more like a contract than for citizenship. but very polite.
A cop asks you something polite, and right away you're ready to kill him.
You didn't used to say that. - I was being polite.
Toto, that's not polite!
Oh, well, please don't be polite.

News and current affairs

But of course the point of the original joke was that the curate was just being polite: an egg is either good or bad, and his was bad.
In his own way, though, he is an engaging, polite man, hip to contemporary cultural icons, and even given to singing at public occasions with wry lyrics and verses.
Ban invariably nods his head in polite agreement without giving clear guidance.
And yet, even as nationalistic emotions were suppressed in polite society all over Europe, the soccer stadiums remained stubbornly in the pre-WWII world.
They are things to be eradicated or at the very least not discussed in polite company.
This is economists' polite code for the message that the US must gradually cut its budget deficit, while other countries - like China and Japan - must gradually let the value of the dollar fall and that of their own currencies rise.
We never called them servants, however; it was not a polite word.
Under such circumstances, calling Mitchell's work up to now a failure is the only polite - and realistic - thing to do.
A couple of months ago, Vicky (as she is known to friends) received her own first death threat. The voice on the end of the line was calm, educated, even polite.
In his last visit to NATO, Secretary of Defense William Cohen replaced polite approval in principle with expressions of concern that stop just short of outright opposition.
That is not something even the most polite US diplomat can welcome.
But those sentiments are a world away from the pretty, polite techniques of his mathematical progeny.
An interrogation, we were instructed, should begin with polite, direct questioning, because a certain number of detainees simply want to unburden themselves.
The obvious topic of conversation as the horrors of the bombing, but the driver, while polite, was unresponsive.
Behind the smiles, the polite interactions, and the cautiously worded diplomatic language, strong undercurrents of suspicion remain.
Cuba's dissidents will, of course, happily do without Western cocktail parties and polite conversation at receptions.
Hence the fierce (albeit arcane and polite) dispute between the two sides at the International Monetary Fund's recent meeting in Lima, Peru.
Is Juan obsequiously polite to Alice, but abrupt to Marvin?
The voice on the end of the line was calm, educated, even polite.
Based on my personal experience, Rowhani is a polite and open character.
It is still not permissible in polite company to talk about these frontline states acquiring their own nuclear weapons.

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