Sentence examples for put politely from inspiring English sources

When put politely, the Nottingham Forest manager was not happy with his team's performance.

Put politely, the stories did not meet the "requisite" risk of substantial prejudice, asserted both newspapers.

The week's new DVD releases are, put politely, a rum old bunch – and in the case of A Dog's Purpose (Entertainment One, PG), the rum in question has turned all the way back to molasses.

The arguments on each side were put politely, if occasionally a little diffidently, by young people in speeches that had been planned in consultation with their peers during group workshops an hour earlier.

That long-forgotten White House "beer summit" – the first black American president, his white VP, a white cop and the black professor arrested for "breaking into" his own home – was the start of a pattern for Obama's increasingly uncomfortable public position on racism: it's anecdotal, occasionally practiced by misguided but well intentioned people, and best put politely behind us.

I tend to wander, or, to put politely, "have a wide and eclectic range".

No one quite knew how to put this politely, but it was political gold.

Taken together, South Africa's responses, both legal and political, have been, to put it politely, creative.

The political discourse and drama of the last few months has been –– to put it politely –– unprecedented.

This was disingenuous, to put it politely.

He was, to put it politely, underprepared.