Genteel - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|dʒenˈtiːl|
Brit.
|dʒenˈtiːl|
adjective
- marked by refinement in taste and manners (syn: civilized, cultivated, cultured, polite)
a genteel old lady
Extra examples
She was born into a genteel family.
They lived in a more genteel era.
She broke into a genteel run.
...having been brought up in a genteel family, she began to resent her fiancé's lowbred ways...
...lived in a time when single women like herself faced a lifetime of genteel penury...
...the actress plays a genteel yet faintly snooty older woman...
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