cortés
polite ; corteous ; courteous ; considerate ; gracious ; urbane ; well-mannered ; chivalrous ; gentlemanlike ; civil ; friendly-sounding ; mild-mannered.
Events are not named according to what it is polite or ideal to call them, but according to what they are actually called by authorities in the field.
Beneath his courteous exterior he hid a sudden spasm of profound agitation.
However compassionate, courteous, and unpressed for time one is, it becomes necessary to move on to other duties.
Library users fall into 4 groups: (1) patrons, who are considerate, grateful and undemanding; (2) 'pests' - the inconsiderate; (3) 'pirates' who steal, deface and mutilate library property and materials; (4) 'vampires' whose enquiries make excessive demands upon the librarian's time.
It will be necessary to be gracious when accepting what seem to be peripheral assignments from a company vice president.
His urbane manner, formidable erudition, and background experience might have led one to conclude that perhaps he was somewhat out of his element there on the prairie.
One should avoid giving less effort to the resolution of a problem presented by a calm, well-mannered individual than to those presented by loud, demanding, and persistent pests.
The sketchbook features drawings illustrating the liberal arts (including personifications of the planets), the chivalrous life (including hunting and love), household remedies, mining and smelting, and war technology.
Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike: he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.
This situation only really stands out because this place is normally such an oasis of gentlemanly and civil behaviour.
The friendly-sounding British bobbies, created in 1829, were the first professional police force, copied by cities around the world.
In 'Killers,' out this Friday in theaters, Katherine Heigl discovers her mild-mannered new husband is secretly a gun-toting spy and learns to kick butt herself.
poco cortés
impolite
ungentlemanlike
All subjects completed a four-page questionnaire in which they rated Americans on six bipolar adjective dimensions: friendly/unfriendly, polite/impolite, industrious/lazy, religious/anti-religious, generous/stingy, and patriotic/not patriotic.
An analysis of their usage by readers of both sexes revealed some unbecoming sexist attitudes and some ungentlemanlike behaviour.
ser cortés con
be civil towards
Judging from the history of warfare and skirmish between the British and the French, I am surprised you are so civil towards each other.