POLITE

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polite adjectiv

1. politicos, cuviincios, binecrescut; curtenitor;

(fam.) the polite thing bună creştere;

(fam.) to do the polite a căuta să fii binecrescut, a face pe politicosul sau pe curtenitorul.

2. cult, cultivat.

3. (despre literatură etc.) rafinat, elegant.

4. (rar) neted.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The polite agent was afraid he could say no more, as the affairs of his clients were not matters which he could discuss.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Luggnaggians are a polite and generous people; and although they are not without some share of that pride which is peculiar to all Eastern countries, yet they show themselves courteous to strangers, especially such who are countenanced by the court.

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

He had not found what he wanted, though he had found that it would take all of a man's time to be polite, and that he would have to live a preliminary life in which to learn how to be polite.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

The boy sat down again and looked at his pumps, till Jo said, trying to be polite and easy, "I think I've had the pleasure of seeing you before. You live near us, don't you?"

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I should have followed up my first inquiry, by asking in what way Miss Varens was connected with her; but I recollected it was not polite to ask too many questions: besides, I was sure to hear in time.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

The doctor having been upstairs and come down again, and having satisfied himself, I suppose, that there was a probability of this unknown lady and himself having to sit there, face to face, for some hours, laid himself out to be polite and social.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He knew my father years ago, and he sent me a polite note this afternoon, saying he hoped I would allow him to express his friendly feeling toward my children by sending them a few trifles in honor of the day.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

They were here—and they accepted Tom and me, making only a polite pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"Lots of people come who haven't been invited," she said suddenly. "That girl hadn't been invited. They simply force their way in and he's too polite to object."

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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