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UK
/kˈɜːtiəsli/
]
ADVERB
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in a polite manner
the policeman answered politely, `Now look here, lady...'
How To Use courteously In A Sentence
- Rick Rubin's severe, thrashing beat to proper effect; Hov courteously brought his instant-quotation A-game for his label founder's return to rap. NPR Topics: News
- It was translucent and obviously a ghost or a close variation of a specter, bowing at the young scientist courteously.
- I want to encourage such customers to complain and I want us to resolve those complaints quickly. courteously and efficiently.
- Whenever Mr Cockerell rings the bell some one in the butts courteously rings back.
- I want to encourage such customers to complain and I want us to resolve those complaints quickly. courteously and efficiently.
- The vast majority of HGV drivers drive carefully and courteously through these towns.
- But it so chanced, that Bello's crafts, one by one meeting the foe, in most cases found the canoes of Vivenza much larger than their own; and manned by more men, with hearts bold as theirs; whence, in the ship - duels that ensued, they were worsted; and the canoes of Vivenza, locking their yard-arms into those of the vanquished, very courteously gallanted them into their coral harbors. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)
- Said my friend on GChat, who I was "courteously" keeping updated on my first experience with the game. Decision Paralysis, Or Why I Can't Get Out Of Vault 101
- It struck me as being almost uncourteously decided. Framley Parsonage
- Although the friendly Dominicans spoke courteously to one another while discussing the weather, their faces were strained and their voices quavered upon mention of the name Georges.