11.   It was just too outre, too far beyond the pale in polite company.

12.   Most of its business previously came from telecommunications carriers, a label not best repeated in polite company nowadays.

13.   Socially, he was awkward in polite company, and his early relationships were tentative and melancholic.

14.   The ritual of drinking is primarily a male one, although women in polite company will have one or two shots.

15.   There was a time in the distant past when topics like cancer and pregnancy were taboo in polite company.

16.   This is the nastiest of the interpretations, so much so that it is rarely mentioned in polite company.

17.   What makes him bearable in polite company is his biting humor, which he directs at himself just as often as he aims it at others.

18.   Its association with sex made discussion of it off limits in polite company.