Word: politest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...This civic spirit of Bombay is not well understood by the rest of the world. The week before the blasts, Reader's Digest came out with a specious, culturally biased survey declaring that Bombay was the world's rudest city?and the politest was that famed citadel of courtesy, New York City. "In Mumbai, they'll step over a person who's fallen in the street," the magazine quoted a Bombayite as saying. But as soon as the bombs went off, Bombayites stooped low to pick up anyone who had fallen in the street, and carried their blood-soaked bodies...
Call us insurgents, but “getting served” is probably the politest way to describe our situation in Iraq. We’d comment further, but Gadfly knows better than to fuck with a marine...