polite society

To never quite fit into polite society no matter what you do?

No one in polite society ever did more than press fingers.

Most of the stories were not fit for polite society.

But now polite society (if you want to call it that) seems to be taking a stand.

An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society.

The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

It's just so seldom one gets a chance to do anything really major in polite society.

"I am surprised that he is received in polite society, then."

Does he know how to sit at a table in polite society?"

Back then, the baths had been the center of what passed for polite society.

Times change, it seems, and with them what may pass for "dressed" in polite society.

But then again, it hadn't been designed for a woman of polite society.

But he is no longer received in polite society, I fear."

A prerequisite in polite society, I'm sure we'd all agree.

I would not want to be expelled from polite society."

In polite society the subject changes before discussion becomes dispute.

In polite society, it is now often referred to only as the "n" word.

The Winter family had fallen away from polite society long before the massacre.

And so she had been, thinking about things that had no business in polite society.

Religion isn't the kind of thing you discuss in polite society, back home.

He was not taking his losses in a manner acceptable to polite society.

I could see why Elizabeth had such a low opinion about what polite society thought desirable in women.

Both Mary and I have been out of polite society for some time.

I guess they hung out on the fringes of polite society.

They were in no mood for the formalities of polite Society.