genteel in English
After that it looks like something from a more refined and genteel and luxurious and over-the-top era.
Use "genteel" in a sentence
1. He lived in genteel poverty .
2. She is too genteel for words.
3. She broke into a genteel run.
4. Her genteel accent irritated me.
5. They are not for genteel walkers.
6. It was all genteel at first.
7. A man, indeed, is not genteel when he gets drunk; but most vices may BE committed very genteel ly(James Boswell.
8. She lived a genteel, careful, frugal life.
9. The downtown has a genteel southern charm.
10. Aspidistra They are a genteel type of folk, and many of them are living at this moment in their genteel poverty behind the old Aspidistra plant.
11. 6 synonyms for Civilised: civilized, cultured, genteel, polite, civilized, cultivated
12. The mansion had an atmosphere of genteel elegance and decay.
13. The game seemed to be a more genteel version of American football.
14. Tahseen Basheer exemplifies the genteel and considerate Cairo of the past.
15. 30 The mansion had an atmosphere of genteel elegance and decay.
16. Society of summer evenings in Lake Wobegon was formal and genteel.
17. This they had done when they descended on the genteel town of Winchelsea.
18. He took elocution lessons to try to make his accent sound more genteel.
19. She was awkward, and naive, and thrifty, and ill-read, and genteel.
20. A bit more cultured, a bit more refined, a bit more genteel.
21. I'd stint myself to keep you both in a genteel and seemly style.
22. His genteel manner of pouring coffee for his guests is perfectly in place.
23. Cultivated - marked by refinement in taste and manners; "Cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society" cultured , genteel , polite , civilised , civilized
24. She always talks in such a genteel voice when she's on the phone.
25. "Last Man in Tower" depicts a genteel middle-class impoverishment of imagination and hope.
26. In the 1930 s there was a return to a more genteel, ladylike appearance.
27. The wooden panelling and stained glass windows created a genteel air from a bygone era.
28. A pianist plays twice a week in the small, genteel bar and the large lounge.
29. If she was so genteel, she wouldn't have come here for the pittance she's paid.
30. Her shabby appearance and the battered portmanteau had weighed heavily against the genteel tone of her voice.
31. It was a place to which genteel families came in search of health and quiet.
32. Not only was the gentleman's intonation unmistakably genteel, but he was slurring his words very slightly.
33. Antonyms for Baseborn include aristocratic, blue-blooded, genteel, gentle, grand, great, high, highborn, highbred and lofty
34. 29 The wooden panelling and stained glass windows created a genteel air from a bygone era.
35. 6 Her shabby appearance and the battered portmanteau had weighed heavily against the genteel tone of her voice.
36. A Cultured person is also called refined, genteel, civilized, and cultivated. Cultured people have good manners and etiquette
37. Quotations ▼ Synonyms: refined, dignified, genteel, well-mannered He swept off his hat and made a deep Courtly bow.
38. Give in to the genteel feel of the old South on Carnival cruises from the beautiful port of Charleston, South Carolina
39. The women restrict their stride and walk along “with tripping steps,” cultivating what might be considered a genteel feminine gait.
40. Their financial status seems to have varied at different times in her life from the reasonably comfortable to the distinctly shabby genteel.
41. It is easy to pretend that the values and standard of behaviour about which I am speaking are genteel or middle class.
42. To take great pleasure or satisfaction: "an opportunity to Bask in the genteel applause of the faithful" (Paul A
43. THE SARACEN: LAND OF THE INFIDEL ROBERT SHEA As for Brenton, it's a mere case of Burbling genteel platitudes in a marvellous voice
44. Our panic is more genteel, softened by balmy California weather, a laid-back attitude, and, OK, the fact that we haven't had a local industry completely implode.
45. I've been on regular "TwiTrips" ever since and am never disappointed with what is recommended... from genteel picnics on Oxford college lawns to transvestite cabaret clubs in Blackpool.
46. The Camarilla describes itself in idealistic terms suggesting it is a genteel society of undead peers but harbors a vast, complex, and rigid hierarchy that breeds ancient rivalries and vicious political machinations
47. These chains made a “tinkling sound” as a woman walked, and they restricted her stride so that she went along “with tripping steps,” having what might be considered a genteel feminine gait.
48. Lady's Companion, a historic term for a genteel woman who was paid to live with a woman of rank or wealth Muhammad's Companions, the Sahaba, the friends who surrounded the prophet of Islam Companion cavalry, the elite cavalry of Alexander the Great Foot Companion, the primary type of soldier in the army of Alexander the Great
49. Middleton, so agreeable had their Assiduities made them to her, that though Lucy was certainly not so elegant, and her sister not even genteel, she was as ready as Sir John to ask them to spend a week or two in Conduit Street; and it happened to be particularly convenient to the Miss Steeles, as soon as the Dashwoods' invitation was known, that their visit should begin a few days before the