What is "niceties"

Usage examples of "niceties".

She was a woman who liked the niceties of lovemaking, she did not fantasise about sex in dark alleyways or forbidden places where lovers might be discovered in embarrassingly compromising situations.

The Gringg can learn the niceties of Terran and High Hrruban once they've mastered this one.

Not for Stroker were the niceties of asking after the state of mind of the newly orphaned.

Instead I simply patted him on the side of the head, whispered niceties to him, and fed him some oats that one of the mounted soldiers happened to have in his saddlebag.

Children, crude little beasts that they were, didn't care about niceties such as that.

Those social niceties out of the way, Ronsard settled his arm around his sister's waist.

Social niceties had to be observed, after all, and with the older generation that could take a while.

Not that she wouldn’t be glad to be home, back with family and friends and such niceties as an air-conditioned supermarket.

Although he had professed a fondness for the niceties, the things he did to Laura's eager young body when he slipped between her sheets each night weren't nice at all but deliciously naughty.

Evidently even the garden-maid was more familiar with Lord Golden’s niceties than I was.

The grandson of a slave, he had always been far more aware of the social niceties than I had.

But he’d decided, as his entourage left the Firmament for the Gyre, that such moral niceties were beneath him now.

She was not given to observing life's social niceties if it didn't suit her.

She simply felt that he was waiting for her to go on, to tell him whatever it was she had called to tell him, because fond as she was of the Scotsman, it had been some time since they had spoken, and she knew he had sensed that she was not calling him merely to exchange niceties about his well-being.

The Rowan grinned at his disgust: Jeff found those nuances and niceties the hardest part of his new duties.