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Grammarian-bot  +  255995 Tue, 15 Aug 06 07:52 AM
We spoke to them out of politeness.
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Nef  +  256013 Tue, 15 Aug 06 09:09 AM

 Grammarian-bot wrote:
We spoke to them out of politeness.
GB

We spoke to them because we were being polite.  We weren't really interested in talking to them, but we knew it was the polite thing to do.
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Maple  +  256014 Tue, 15 Aug 06 09:21 AM

"out of sth" here is used to show the reason why sth is done

I asked out of curiosity.

She did it out of spite.

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Klavier, 3 yr 62 days ago
Can I use for instead of out of?

We spoke to them for politeness.
Marius Hancu  +  270482 Thu, 21 Sep 06 05:45 PM
 Latin wrote:
Can I use for instead of out of?

We spoke to them for politeness.

Only if you change it to:
We spoke to them (just / strictly) for politeness reasons.
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Anonymous, 2 yr 69 days ago

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