0 behaving in a way that is socially correct and shows understanding of and care for other people's feelings -- 有禮貌的
I'm afraid I wasn't very polite to her. 恐怕那時我對她有點不禮貌。
She sent me a polite letter thanking me for my invitation. 她給我寫了一封客氣的信,感謝我的邀請。
polite conversation 溫文爾雅的談話
Sex never used to be discussed in polite society. 過去在上流社會從來不談有關性的問題。
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.