COURTESIES Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

courtesies

noun

plural of courtesy

as in services

an act of kind assistance did me the courtesy of loaning me his jacket

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as in gestures

an act or utterance that is a customary show of good manners the greeting "How are you?" is often intended as no more than a courtesy

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Recent Examples of courtesies Small courtesies keep big efforts moving forward. — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2026 With both courtesies and catastrophes refusing to conform, the canton’s school board, publishers, and clergy were forced to produce multiple editions of primers, textbooks, and catechisms; sometimes five parallel print runs were needed for a population the size of a town. — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025 Leonora measures out her days in courtesies and slights, the former dominating the beginning of the book, the latter rapidly gaining ground. — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025

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Noun

The data breach involved Educational Testing Service or ETS, which provides extensive services to California.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
Furthermore, using opioid abatement funds, the county has expanded youth and family support services, co-responder units and other harm-reduction services.

— Joshua Barocas, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of services

Noun

We had been told not to point, lest our gestures attract a sniper’s bullets.

— Nicolas Niarchos, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
The gestures of moving, being, and breathing coalesced for Kristin as this poem, which emerged from the state of presence that is meditation-in-action.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of gestures

Noun

This is important to me, because as much as these tech companies claim to be upending everything with AI and claiming extraordinarily special privileges as a result, there is still legal gravity constraining them.

— James Folta, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026
Maybe someone with the right privileges could perform a factory reset or another destructive action, for example.

— David Bennett, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of privileges

Noun

The decision is a rebuke of the defense secretary, who has remained in the president’s good graces through numerous controversies.

— Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2026
While Bell has navigated the situation with grace and issued an immediate public apology for his teenage posts, getting back into the Blazers' good graces remains a steep battle.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2026

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