"polite" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The 'five-second rule' is a popular polite fiction regarding the eating of food that has fallen to the floor or ground.
- Upon their arrival at the inn, he had found himself maintaining the polite fiction that Mary was his cousin.
- So long as we appear respectable in all ways, the polite fiction of appearance is maintained.
- This, however, turns out to be a polite fiction.
- He or she will scrape through with a polite fiction of a degree that will make no difference in the job market.
- In scholarly usage, "polite fiction" can be traced to at least 1953.
- It was a polite fiction that he helped Rhuarc and the others plan.
- That is a polite fiction, imposed by gambling control laws.
- Most Israeli officials, however, recognize it as a polite fiction.
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