Synonym: civility, niceness. Similar words: impoliteness, polite, politely, impolite, impolitely, completeness, polity, politic. Meaning: [pə'laɪtnɪs] n. 1. a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage 2. the act of showing regard for others.
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(91) Taking care to pitch my voice to politeness, I asked about the next bus to Hattiesburg.
(92) These values, which we can also call politeness levels, specify what a screen reader should do when the element value is updated.
(93) Specifically, members of collectivistic cultures expect greater verbal indirectness, politeness, and non-immediacy than members of individualistic cultures.
(94) The last attempts to discuss some to the EFL teaching of linguistic politeness.
(95) The iconicity of politeness in the mental representation is discussed, which can be examined from cognitive context iconicity, pragmatic distance iconicity and scalar quantity iconicity.
(96) At last, special attention is given to discussing the origin of lexical markedness phenomena from four aspects: ways of cognition, economic motivation, politeness principle and social elements.
(97) Subjunctive mood is a verb form, indicating the speakers intention and attitude, including order, suggest, wish, hypothesis, politeness, imprecation etc.
(98) Politeness and politeness strategies are important motivating and mitigating forces in business letter writing.
(99) Sir Leicester, for all his scrupulous politeness, is unable to assist her, and is left behind.
(100) The relationship between politeness and indirectness can be explained by dividing politeness into linguistic politeness and utterance politeness and introducing pragmatic distance.
(101) The attitudinal past and progressive aspect in English, when used in sentences of requests and proposals, may have functions of flexibility and politeness.
(101) Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
(102) It's how we know when someone finds our jokes hilarious or is humoring us out of politeness.
(103) However, when majority, you will discover that you just made a opening, by politeness or uncouthly rejection.
(104) Since its establishment, Face Saving Theory has always been treated as a classical theory in the study of politeness phenomena and is of great influence in linguistic study.
(105) The changes of gender difference in language about politeness principle and the language character in republican period are valuable to be researched.
(106) Its most important communicative principles include principle of evasiveness, principle of politeness, principle of embellishment.
(107) Historical origins , values and thinking models all contribute to the appropriateness of politeness.
(108) Gregan-Paxton program coordinator of the business school's office of undergraduate advising says she is impressed by the work ethic and politeness of her students from China.
(109) Politeness, clearness and conciseness are the essentials of good business writing.
(110) Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rule of politeness.
(111) His forced politeness sat awkwardly upon him, and approached almost to impertinence.
(112) Wouldn't you agree that our traditional culture is always credited with modesty, politeness and respectfulness , which have always been treasured for more than five thousand years?
(113) In western world, politeness lays focus on interpersonal equality and cooperation. In China, politeness owns four primary elements: respectfulness , modesty, attitude and refinement.
(114) The paper contrasts euphemisms of both English and Chinese from the perspective of communication functions including avoidance of taboos, prettification or disguise, and politeness.
(115) As English advertisements are a dialogue between the manufacturer and the consumers, the politeness principle is also applicable in the advertisement language selection.
(116) Shall I bend low and say: Sir, you spit upon me on last Wednesday, another time you called me dog, and for such politeness I am to lend you money.
(117) There no call for such politeness to this kind of people.
(118) Dr. Gregan-Paxton, program coordinator of the business school's office of undergraduate advising, says she is impressed by the work ethic and politeness of her students from China.
(119) She lectured them about politeness and sharing and outright tried to bully her way into that playgroup.
(120) She had that inbred politeness, it was a part of her.
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