Sentence examples for Barely polite from inspiring English sources
"Ma-dame!" she snaps, in the answering syllables of barely polite warning, server to supplicant, which also echo through Paris cafés.
Indeed, all week the jet makers looking to cash in on the deal have exchanged barely polite taunts, jeers and even mutual accusations of electronic eavesdropping.
At the Newton Centre, Seetoh was barely polite about the popiah and Wang did not pursue the matter, having become caught up in a discussion of a sort of oyster omelette that we'd picked up from a nearby stall.
So embarrassed, so eager was she to get away from him and his barely polite indifference that she put her hand on the door handle, as if to open it, while they were still moving along the street.
After sparring for months from a safe distance, Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush confronted each other last night in an intense, sometimes barely polite televised debate over health care, tax cuts, defense spending, campaign finance and other issues at the center of their presidential race.
According to historian Shelby Foote, after Lincoln's presentation, the applause was delayed, scattered, and "barely polite".
For decades, hecklers who railed at entertainers, politicians and athletes were confined to the margins — they were often drunks or crackpots, tolerated (just barely) by polite society, like litter on a city street.
It brings out stunning documentaries along with efforts that would barely get a polite shrug at film festivals.
It has become so dirty and reviled that it is barely uttered in polite company these days.
And he barely won a polite laugh when he looked startled when Mr. Kerry suggested that he owned a timber company.
