POLITE

• (adj.) showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.

• (adj.) not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others

  "even if he didn't like them he should have been civil"

  synonyms : civil

• (adj.) marked by refinement in taste and manners

  "cultivated speech", "cultured Bostonians", "cultured tastes", "a genteel old lady", "polite society"

  synonyms : civilised , civilized , cultivated , cultured , genteel

  an elderly woman living in genteel poverty -added by nithi

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