Adjective:

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genteel's Usage Examples:

In response to what had been described in the early 1960s as a period of genteel decline, The Topsham Society was formed.

"Tom Hervey, though a vicious man [ie a man of vice], was one of the genteelest men who ever lived".

He was a great economist, but would spend money as genteelly as any man occasionally.

The latter was founded by Baptists to instruct genteel young women in what were considered acceptable goals of their time and place, proficiency in needlework, dancing, drawing, and penmanship.

a quiet indifference, interrupted only to rail mentally against the genteelness of bourgeois society or to donate his new wealth to working-class friends.

A lady"s companion was a woman of genteel birth who lived with a woman of rank or wealth as retainer.

his thirties, noted for his acting range, from frenetic intensity and garrulousness through to refined genteel introspection.

toward "the dark, the dramatic, and the psychological" rather than "the genteel".

Anti-brown-bag lawThe words Brown-bagging is the genteel disguise .

Her brother suggested tennis as it was considered a genteel sport.

many would wander over to artist Marie Vassilieff"s soup kitchen (more genteelly called her cantine) for a meal and conversation with fellow starving artists.

Hove, usually humorous, when asked if they live in Brighton is "Hove, actually" thus maintaining a distinction with their less genteel neighbour.

if you do not choose to call him a pragmatical clinchpoop and kick his breech, which you might think ungenteel, perhaps.

Synonyms:

civilized, polite, refined, cultured, cultivated, civilised,

Antonyms:

inelegant, wild, uneducated, noncivilized, unrefined,