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P — Pointer to Porphyry (Part 4 of 11)

    3. Classic, classical, Attic, chaste, pure, refined, elegant, finished.

Polite, a. Accomplished, genteel, cultivated, refined, courteous, civil, affable, complaisant, courtly, gracious, urbane, polished, well-behaved, well-mannered, well-bred, elegant, obliging.

Politeness, n.

    1. Courtesy, civility, good manners, courteousness, gentility, affability, complaisance, comity, amenity, suavity, decorum, good-breeding, obliging manner, refinement, urbanity, courtliness.
    2. Refinement, elegance, finish.

Politic, a.

    1. Civil, political, civic.
    2. Wise, prudent, judicious, discreet, sagacious, prudential, wary, provident, astute, long-headed.
    3. Artful, cunning, shrewd, intriguing, sly, wily, subtle, foxy, Machiavelian, ingenious, unscrupulous, crafty, skilful, diplomatic, strategic.
    4. Well-devised, well-adapted.

Political, a.

    1. Civil, civic, public, politic, national.
    2. National.

Politician, n.

    1. Statesman, statist.
    2. Partisan, dabbler in politics.

Politics, n. pl.

    1. Political science, political economy, science of government.
    2. Political affairs, party politics.

Polity, n. Form of government, civil constitution.