That was the polite version - there were fruitier varieties.
The term was only a more polite version of something else.
The polite version is that he was quite outspoken.
And that's the polite version, say many women!
She was a college girl, though a very polite and protected version of the species.
The movie is a sanitized, even polite version of his radio show and his two best-selling books.
Hitchens dropped back to form a flank between the women and the man, then said, "This is the polite version.
According to a more polite version of this argument, these crimes are embedded and endemic within the capitalist system.
In reality, the approach seemed more like a polite version of gate crashing.