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genteel
[ jen-teel ]
adjective
- belonging or suited to polite society.
- well-bred or refined; polite; elegant; stylish.
- affectedly or pretentiously polite, delicate, etc.
genteel
/ dʒɛnˈtiːl /
adjective
- affectedly proper or refined; excessively polite
- respectable, polite, and well-bred
a genteel old lady
- appropriate to polite or fashionable society
genteel behaviour
Derived Forms
- genˈteelly, adverb
- genˈteelness, noun
Other Words From
- gen·teelly adverb
- gen·teelness noun
- pseudo·gen·teel adjective
- quasi-gen·teel adjective
- quasi-gen·teelly adverb
- ungen·teel adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of genteel1
Example Sentences
And now a Mediterranean villa on a hillside in genteel Bel-Air has become the latest target of mysterious graffiti vandals.
This has been played down by his admirers as a kind of genteel, country-club antisemitism somehow distinguishable from the bad kind.
Well, the amazing thing about Lewis Powell on the Supreme Court is that Powell is sort of a classic Southern lawyer, a genteel racist.
Derailing the training center is a longshot, but Chambers is committed to last-ditch efforts — and, in turn, to thumbing his nose at the genteel relatives from whom he is estranged.
Yet despite its genteel reputation and simple objective — touch an opponent with your blade before being touched — the sport has long been rife with drama and suspicion.
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