Sentence examples for polite ways from inspiring English sources

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Whereas candidates used to rely on political "dog whistles," or polite ways to say impolite things, Trump avoids any pretense to civility.

It was my first exposure to the extremely polite ways of The New Yorker in conducting business with its contributors.

Cautiously optimistic and time will tell are just polite ways of saying I haven't got a clue.

You have so many polite ways of asking and it took me a while to crack the code and realise, OK, they're not really asking.

When the artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe, Dominic Dromgoole, asked me to write a new play for his wonderful theatre, I spent a couple of years finding polite ways to say no.

In his Sept. 4 column, we are to deliberate on all the polite ways to encourage our neighborhood crystal-meth dealer to tone down any overt "nuisance" behavior so that we might avoid blowing the whistle and exposing him to inflexible and ineffectual criminal codes!

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But, he cautioned, "You should not expect politics to be exercised in a very polite way.

It's a polite way of staking out middle ground.

This is a polite way of saying "impossible".

They are relentless, but in a very polite way.

"Almost" can be a polite way of saying something definitely.

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