polite society
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.90 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
That portion of society that is especially concerned with etiquette, proper behavior, and politeness.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[H]e had been brought up in an extravagant family, who considered tradesmen and manufacturers as a caste disgraceful to polite society."
- "[I]n the midst of the company assembled the reader's humble servant was present, and in a very polite society, too, of "poets, clergymen, men of letters, and members of both Houses of Parliament.""
- "[…] a club especially favoured by wits, authors, and the flaneurs of polite society."
- "[S]he managed with considerable effort to keep up a sufficient outward semblance of mourning to satisfy the customs and fashions of polite society."
- "Scenes, Lady Jane had explained—on the occasion of his knocking down an objectionable cabman during their honeymoon trip—were of all things what polite society most resolutely abhorred."
- "It used to be said that in polite society one shouldn't discuss sex or money."