CIVILITY

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civility substantiv

amabilitate, politeţe, curtenie, bună-creştere;

to exchange civilities (with smb.) a schimba cuvinte de politeţe sau complimente, a face schimb de politeţuri sau de amabilităţi cu cineva.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

With more than equal civility the offer was declined; she did not wish to dance.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Emma was sorry;—to have to pay civilities to a person she did not like through three long months!—to be always doing more than she wished, and less than she ought!

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

He came to dine with our horse, who received him with great civility.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

The entrance of her father put a stop to the civility, which Catherine was beginning to hope might introduce a desire of their corresponding.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

With proper civilities the ladies then withdrew; all of them equally surprised that he meditated a quick return.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

As such, however, they were treated by her with quiet civility; and by her husband with as much kindness as he could feel towards anybody beyond himself, his wife, and their child.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Wonderful civility this!

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Anne found herself by this time growing so much more hardened to being in Captain Wentworth's company than she had at first imagined could ever be, that the sitting down to the same table with him now, and the interchange of the common civilities attending on it (they never got beyond), was become a mere nothing.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Fanny felt the advantage; and, drawing back from the toils of civility, would have been again most happy, could she have kept her eyes from wandering between Edmund and Mary Crawford.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I should not wonder, said Mrs. Weston, if Miss Fairfax were to have been drawn on beyond her own inclination, by her aunt's eagerness in accepting Mrs. Elton's civilities for her.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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