0 behaving in a way that is socially correct and shows understanding of and care for other people's feelings:
I'm afraid I wasn't very polite to her.
She sent me a polite letter thanking me for my invitation.
polite conversation
1 behaving in a way that is socially correct and shows respect for other people’s feelings:
She was polite but not excessively so.
"Try to be polite to him." "Like hell I will!"
He was unusually polite.
They're very polite in your presence, but you get the feeling they're laughing up their sleeves.
With engineers and administrators he was always polite and exceedingly friendly.
The seminar quietly finessed the definitional question, not without a few polite demurs.
Their approaches to these senior figures were invariably polite and deferential, at least initially.
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educado, atencioso…
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礼儀正しい, 丁寧な…
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poli/-ie, poli…
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