• laureate, poet laureate
• court clown, court jester, jester
• purveyor by appointment
• affable, bland, civil, civil-spoken, complacent, complaisant, courteous, courtly, gallant, gentle, gracious, mannerly, neighborly, neighbourly, obliging, polite, smooth, urbane, well-mannered
• affably, blandly, courteously, obligingly, politely
• attention, chivalry, civility, complacency, complaisance, courtesy, gallantry, neighbourliness, politeness, urbanity
• brusque, curt, discourteous, graceless, impolite, surly
• do the civil, do the polite