What is "considerate"

Usage examples of "considerate".

Seeing her effort to be considerate of my feelings hurts as much as seeing her arms around him did.

The questions had been asked of him down in sick bay by a jaygee who did only a cursory job, being as considerate as he could of a guy just hauled out of the Gulf of Tonkin.

Institution, I was accorded the kindest and most considerate treatment from all members of your staff and employees with whom I came in contact.

I am well aware that the Massagetae are not only the oldest and most pious, most cultured, and at the same time the bravest people on earth, that their invincible armies are the largest, their fleet the greatest, their character at once the most inflexible and the most amiable, their women the most beautiful, their schools and public buildings the most exemplary in the world, but also that in all the world they possess in the highest degree that virtue which is so highly esteemed and so sorely lacking in many other great peoples: namely, although conscious of their own superiority, they are charitable toward and considerate of foreigners, not expecting each and every poor stranger -- coming from an inferior country -- to have himself attained the heights of Massagetic perfection.

Not wishing to give Orthis any grounds for offense I hesitated to make the change, while Orthis, never having thought a considerate thought or done a considerate deed in his life, could not, of course, have been expected to suggest it.

The groups of five seemed a considerate way of teaching, but Saba wished she could learn this in twos.

Kind, considerate, always listening to her, taking her advice, no secrets from her, everything that Wakura had foretold.

He was glad I had turned out not to be some hippy rucksack smartass after all, but a decent American boy, considerate of his father.

How considerate of the cane growers, not wishing to trouble government with the task of enforcing its own laws.

The looters showed a considerate willingness to plunder only in regular shopping hours, and only when daylight was fully switched on did the TV vans get their cameras rolling at some of the most popular scenes of pillage.

That they might have thought otherwise, nay, would gradually have adopted the opinions of the patriots, is not improbable, had more time been allowed them, and had the course of the latter been more indulgent and considerate.

There had been setting of caps, without number, ay, and pulling them too, an the truth were known among the fair Stellas and Clarissas, the Daphnes and Dorises, of Charlemont, but, though Stevens was sufficiently considerate of the claims of each, so far as politeness demanded it, and contrived to say pleasant things, pour passer le temps, with all of them, it was very soon apparent to the most sanguine, that the imperial beauties and imperious mind of Margaret Cooper had secured the conquest for herself.

I thought his advice very considerate, particularly when I saw that all the punters lost, and that the Greek, very calm in the midst of the insulting treatment of those he had duped, was pocketing his money, after handing a share to the officer who had taken an interest in the bank.

And Mary walked among them, burlesquing the considerate hostess, saying outrageous things to them.

Then, it was implied, or so Enderby understood, not having read any of them, only having been told about them, they became considerate lovers eager for cunnilingus with their castratrices, but they were sneered at for being impotent.