Crossword-Solution: POLITE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Polite | v. | Smooth; polished. |
| Polite | v. | Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil. |
| Polite | v. | Characterized by refinement, or a high degree of finish; as, polite literature. |
| Polite | v. t. | To polish; to refine; to render polite. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| POLITE | anagram | PIOLET |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POLITE (5)
Also used of deadlock-like interactions between humans, as when two people meet in a narrow corridor, and each tries to be polite by moving aside to let the other pass, but they end up swaying from side to side without making any progress because they always both move the same way at the same time.
Now, it seems to me his eating beans with a knife is more suspicious.” “Perhaps it is a polite custom in Omaha, from which great country the Wizard originally came,” suggested the Tin Woodman.
Where Washington had been polite and ingratiating, DuBois was self-assertive and, frequently, aggressive.
The atmosphere furnished by the parents to the son in this present case was an atmosphere saturated with learning; with thinkings and ponderings upon deep subjects; and with polite culture.
While everyone was polite at his presentations, afterwards they had little idea of what he was talking about.
Quotes with POLITE (3)
Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.
Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so passionate" you don't want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so polite," because, who cares about polite?
I'm sorry," he says." What? Why?""You're fixing everything I set down." He nods at my hands, which are readjusting the elephant. "It wasn't polite of me to come in and start touching your things.""Oh, it's okay," I say quickly, letting go of the figurine. "You can touch anything of mine you want." would be so bad.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 79 times in crossword archives (1948–2024).