politesse

• But Campbell observed his ‘shrewd Vigilance’ awake under all his ‘politesse,’ and John Murray said that Crabbe said uncommon things in so common a way that they escaped recognition. —  Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes
• Deference and politesse are usually the rule when power interviews power, as is a tacit prohibition against saying what you really think. —  CJR
• Not for any reasons of politesse, just the sheer weight of the horror of it all. —  Tyee - Home
• Her politesse was kind and without sarcasm, and, by her own naturalness, she communicated ease. —  Women of Modern France
• "Le joueur n'a ni politesse, ni sexe," was a proverb of the "Rooms" which Mary Grant had never heard, but would come to understand She was on the threshold of an enormous room, magnificently proportioned, hung with lustrous chandeliers, and divided by an archway into two sections. —  The Guests Of Hercules

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