Sentence examples for a polite titter from inspiring English sources
(They cannot resist a polite titter about spontaneously combusting laptop batteries).
The preacher pauses for the laugh, there's a polite titter and then metaphorical tumbleweed whirls down the chancel steps.
But now we're time-poor and more women than ever work, we're less likely to be able to have a tipple and a polite titter with the grocer.
What Gatrell describes as "the old laughter" did not simply die away to a polite titter in the newly refined 1820s.
Dr. Dunbar, however, was concerned with relaxed, contagious social laughter, not the tyrant's cackle or the "polite titter" of awkward conversation.
"Polite titters do not involve the repeated, uninhibited series of exhalations" that are needed to "drive the endorphin effect," he says.
Humans express laughter differently depending on the context: polite titters of agreement are very different from explosions of mirth.
A polite argument ensues.
