Politeness
in example sentence
Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion; and upon Elinor therefore the whole task of telling lies when
politeness
required it, always fell.
More example sentences with word politeness
Politeness
is a much-overlooked virtue.
How about never — is never good for you?" what you have is the syntax of
politeness
and the message of being rude.
This is an old tradition from a time when dinner knives were quite sharp, and it was a sign of
politeness
and nonaggression to keep them pointed away from other diners.
We're told that civility is simply a synonym for respect, for good manners, for politeness, but at the same time, it's clear that to accuse someone of incivility is much, much worse than calling them impolite, because to be uncivil is to be potentially intolerable in a way that merely being rude isn't.
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