Grateful
Polite
Polite adjective - Showing consideration, courtesy, and good manners.
Grateful and polite are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Grateful" instead an adjective "Polite".
Nearby Words: politeness, politely
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Both words in one sentence
- It's not just Lisa, either- he befriends a blind kid in "Stealing First Base" and acts surprisingly polite and grateful to Marge for taking him into her house in "Sleeping with the Enemy".
- He responds with polite but grateful surprise to courtesy, and answers freely (almost) any question you ask him.
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