(n.) An act of civility or respect; an act of kindness or favor performed with politeness.
(n.) Favor or indulgence, as distinguished from right; as, a title given one by courtesy.
(n.) An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees.
(v. i.) To make a respectful salutation or movement of respect; esp. (with reference to women), to bow the body slightly, with bending of the knes.
(v. t.) To treat with civility.
Example Sentences:
(1) Löw’s side became the first from Europe to claim the trophy on Latin American soil courtesy of Götze’s fine 113th-minute finish from André Schürrle’s delivery.
(2) Image: Courtesy of Pew Research Center The data also show why autocrats might have reason to fear open discussions in cyberspace.
(3) He takes a throw-in deep in United territory, from which the home side launch a counter-attack courtesy of Wayne Rooney.
(4) That, however, tells only part of the story of a night in which Chelsea went 2-0 ahead, courtesy of headed goals from Didier Drogba and John Terry, only for Napoli to respond via a peach of shot from Gokhan Inler.
(5) Of course, we had different political opinions but he never treated me with anything less than complete courtesy and I had profound respect for his integrity."
(6) The David Lynch limited-edition box set is available on Blu-ray and DVD from 4 June, courtesy of Universal Pictures
(7) Ms Williams's name will already be familiar to many gay rights campaigners courtesy of a memorable speech on same-sex relationships, in which she applauded Jamaica's criminalisation of what her sect considers a curable aberration, a diagnosis she did not hesitate to apply to Tom Daly.
(8) Here's as good a precis of this game so far as you'll read, courtesy of Matt Dony: "Watching this game is like flicking back and forth between, say, Barcelona vs Spain, and QPR vs Sunderland circa their last dalliance with the Premier League.
(9) Obligatory indie section is obligatory Yeah, but there was some good stuff in Microsoft's blipvert run-through of indie titles – all coming to the console courtesy of the ID@Xbox programme, which seeks to help smaller studios make and distribute games on the platform.
(10) His defence fell apart at a set piece, conceding a late goal when, courtesy of Jos Hooiveld's flick, Maya Yoshida headed James Ward-Prowse's free-kick beyond the impressive Vito Mannone.
(11) Violence may indeed be an instinct in Yemen, but so are courtesy and humour.
(12) He acknowledged that he and Burns have met senior executives at Five, but stressed: "We've met everyone out of courtesy".
(13) All three of those came from the penalty spot courtesy of Guardado, two on highly disputed calls.
(14) 90+2 min: Chile counter-attack courtesy of Mark Gonzalez, Alexis Sanchez and Matias Fernandez.
(15) Photograph: Courtesy of the family It’s been over a month since Fátima Avelica watched Ice agents, wearing uniforms stamped “POLICE”, handcuff and arrest her father, and the pain of that moment still lingers.
(16) Here, courtesy of Dazvid Hills always-excellent Said and Done column in the Observer, are some figures to bear in mind when considering your answer: £1.7bn: Current forecast for Fifa's overall profit from the World Cup , with all income from broadcasting, marketing and tickets channelled out of South Africa.
(17) "We understand that this is a sensitive issue for many in India and we are looking into the intake procedures surrounding this arrest to ensure that all standard procedures were followed and that every opportunity for courtesy was extended," Carney said at a briefing on Wednesday.
(18) Someone who can manage a 10%-plus deposit can fix for five years at 2.99% courtesy of West Bromwich building society.
(19) In other words, we’re meant to get diversity and responsiveness courtesy of monoliths.
(20) One of those changes, Joe Dodoo, 20, scored a hat-trick on his debut while Andrej Kramaric was on target too as Leicester progressed to the third round courtesy of a 4-1 win at Bury , for whom Danny Mayor scored.
Generous
Definition:
(a.) Of honorable birth or origin; highborn.
(a.) Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous.
(a.) Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.
(a.) Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table.
(a.) Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(2) As Kuwait is one of the countries where the total consumption of antibiotics is very high as compared to most of the western countries, we are inclined to assume that this generous policy for the prescription of especially ampicillin and other broad spectrum antibiotics in uncomplicated infections has generated this serious consequence.
(3) Insertion of the material after careful tailoring to the individual patient's own mandibular size and configuration requires a generous posterior lower buccal sulcus incision.
(4) Ed Miliband's education package is less generous than some hoped Read more The Labour leader said the coalition is directly to blame for a trebling in the number of classes with more than 30 pupils from 31,265 in 2010 to 93,345 in 2014, as a result of opening free schools in areas where new schools are not needed.
(5) Even if you're being generous, Wood's vision of an alternative can feel like a utopian work in progress.
(6) People who knew him told Guardian Australia he was generous to the core, even if in desperate need for help himself.
(7) Our current recommendation for initial treatment is excision of the primary tumor followed by irradiation with generous fields to include the primary tumor site and draining regional lymphatics to doses of 46-50 Gy in 2 Gy fractions.
(8) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(9) Both he and Burns were generous with their time when talking to me, and offered thoughtful contributions to that article.
(10) I will confine myself to correcting Kaiman's slanders against the most open and generous immigration system in the developed world.
(11) The Double Irish loophole allows US companies, mostly in the technology and pharmaceutical sectors, to reduce their effective tax bill far below Ireland’s already generous 12.5% corporate tax rate by shifting most of their taxable income from an operating company in Ireland to another Irish-registered firm located in an offshore tax haven, such as Bermuda.
(12) It is bad enough that the minimum wage required by law is hardly generous, yet there we were again last week confronted with reports of delivery company Hermes exploiting workers , HM Revenue & Customs widening its investigation into the notorious wages shirker Sports Direct and a challenge to Uber’s employment practices.
(13) There were mainly nosocomial infections resulting from too generously administered antibiotics.
(14) Offering our ADF 2% with no cuts to conditions isn’t exactly generous, but it is a mile ahead of the attack on rights and real wages on offer from this government to public sector workers,” she said.
(15) How can this generously dubbed "elite" guarantee the future of the nation?
(16) With Level I as a generous clinical indicator, 110 (25%) of 525 patients were transfused in excess of blood needs; by Level II (intermediate) and Level III (strict) criteria, 221 (42%) and 314 (60%) of 525 patients, respectively, were transfused in excess of blood needs.
(17) When the frozen or paraffin section diagnosis of a generous excisional biopsy was noninvasive breast carcinoma, there was a substantial risk that foci of the same type of noninvasive carcinoma were also present in other quadrants.
(18) In the current experiments we investigated whether the previously recognized sparseness of A beta on the surface of tubular epithelial cells might be accounted for by a protein coding difference deduced from the primary structure of its transcript compared with sequence from lymphoid cells that normally express A beta in generous amounts.
(19) Foster, as minister for the environment three years ago, hatched a scheme to promote renewable fuels through excessively generous subsidies.
(20) But his magnificent, exact rendering of the world, in his mordant, civilised and generous prose, has no comparison.