Get to know Politely better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like courteously or impolitely.
Politely meaning
in a polite manner
Synonyms of Politely
Using Politely
- The main meaning on this page is: in a polite manner
- Useful related words include: courteously, discourteously, impolitely.
- In the example corpus, politely often appears in combinations such as: and politely, it politely, politely asked.
Context around Politely
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Politely
- In this selection, "politely" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, officer, interacting, albeit, asked, assured and suggest stand out and add context to how "politely" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an officer politely assured me and and asking politely when she. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "politely" sits close to words such as akshay, amazingly and avon, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with politely
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But, like with all things, do it politely. (8 words)
He instead politely says “thank you for the question”. (9 words)
King would smile politely and keep his responses short. (9 words)
Everyone waited politely single-file on the platform, and the fast bus pulled up, departees spilling out, our line jostling to get in. Yes, in that classic “Como México, no hay dos” fashion, things were a bit anarchic. (38 words)
As she is still learning the ropes when it comes to interacting politely with other animals, so would require a home who have experience with positive reinforcement training and socialisation techniques. (31 words)
An officer politely assured me otherwise and said that after the man at my car window phoned to report me, a helicopter made a video of my erratic driving. (29 words)
But there were key elements of LSU’s latest national championship team who — oh, how to put this politely? (19 words)
Can I politely suggest to you that these savings should have immediately been allocated to the residents of our two towns? (21 words)
Example sentences (20)
And, as earnings approach, “market sentiment intensifies,” to put it politely.
An officer politely assured me otherwise and said that after the man at my car window phoned to report me, a helicopter made a video of my erratic driving.
As she is still learning the ropes when it comes to interacting politely with other animals, so would require a home who have experience with positive reinforcement training and socialisation techniques.
But, like with all things, do it politely.
But there were key elements of LSU’s latest national championship team who — oh, how to put this politely?
But to Pa Obasanjo as the former president, I will give fuller response here, albeit politely and in a measured dose.
Can I politely suggest to you that these savings should have immediately been allocated to the residents of our two towns?
During the early stages of the Voice debate, when confronted with his critics’ arguments, he would politely disagree while emphasising his respect for the critics themselves.
Everyone waited politely single-file on the platform, and the fast bus pulled up, departees spilling out, our line jostling to get in. Yes, in that classic “Como México, no hay dos” fashion, things were a bit anarchic.
Five days later, I sent a text saying thanks for letting Annie pet sit, and asking politely when she would get paid.
For the writer to suggest we are being anything except supportive and respectful of Kaska, can most politely be described as mischievous.
He instead politely says “thank you for the question”.
Her daughters prepared a handwritten sign titled "Teresa's Request," politely asking: "Please can you sit me in an upright position when eating and drinking.
I politely pointed out the error and the damn thing acted like a Trump voter being told the orange goober lost the election.
I politely repeated my initial question and got no response.
I said the Section 21 Notice wasn't due to expire for weeks and politely asked them to leave.
I’ve been wearing it again to find out if you should buy it or politely pass it by in favor of the Watch 6 Classic.
King would smile politely and keep his responses short.
On Friday, the rating agencies downgraded SVB to junk, more politely known as a high yield issuer.
On the 20th of the month Gunn politely asked on that everybody to calm down, as he still had more than one-third of the month left.
Common combinations with politely
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and politely 13×
- it politely 12×
- politely asked 12×
- politely declined 12×
- politely and 11×
- to politely 11×
- she politely 8×
- but politely 8×
- politely told 7×
- he politely 6×