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  • adjective comparative form of polite: more polite

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Examples

  • His Sunday column gives the Governor's decision its due derision, in politer terms appropriate for a family newspaper.

    Sound Politics: Governor Punts, Editorial Boards Applaud. Voters, what say you? 2006

  • I call back the account manager, and ask, in politer terms of course, what the hell is going on here.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Jonathan 2005

  • I call back the account manager, and ask, in politer terms of course, what the hell is going on here.

    Ah, clients... Jonathan 2005

  • This is actually politer than some of Mr Darling's withering observations about his former colleagues in government.

    Labour must learn from their history or be doomed to repeat it | Andrew Rawnsley 2011

  • I do share his dislike in that post for publishers that want free advice instead of paying for consulting work, but there are much politer, more professional ways to make the point.

    Entitlement Much? Demanding Print Comics in Return for Coverage » Comics Worth Reading 2009

  • This may or may not usher in a new era of smaller, more efficient government, politer disagreement, and more general fist-pumping in delight at living in America, but it certainly was a speech to remember.

    Top five State of the Union moments Alexandra Petri 2011

  • In politer terms, Peter's hematologists advised us to cease and desist getting pregnant again.

    Circumcision Saved My Life Diane Cole 2011

  • The Americans were politer than I'd ever seen them though; they get this a lot, and call it "the flagpole", as they direct your car into a separate lane that forces you around the flag pole and back into Canada.

    Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009

  • They picked up where Dada had left off, in the 1920s, its energies channeled into the politer and more formally acceptable modes of Surrealism. 1970 was a mere ten years from the landmark retrospective devoted to the heritage of Marcel Duchamp at the Pasadena Art Museum.

    Peter Clothier: PST/OC Peter Clothier 2011

  • They picked up where Dada had left off, in the 1920s, its energies channeled into the politer and more formally acceptable modes of Surrealism. 1970 was a mere ten years from the landmark retrospective devoted to the heritage of Marcel Duchamp at the Pasadena Art Museum.

    Peter Clothier: PST/OC Peter Clothier 2011

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