He'd learned some time ago that there was no use being too polite with the Cardassians.

"People are polite and social with each other," he says.

So they had to be polite with each other and get along with the situation.

I know you are always polite and gentle with her.

I won't be polite with you much longer; she said.

He is polite with reporters, even when declining an interview.

In public they were very polite with each other.

It was impossible to be polite and distant with this man.

To know to be polite and friendly with all he met.

She had been unfailingly polite to them and generous with her time.