genteel
genteel
Definition
gen·teel (jen tēl′)
gen·teel′ly adverb
gen·teel′·ness noun
genteel
Synonyms
genteel
modif.
genteel
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- ambiance: This relaxing resort is becoming a bit busier as popularity grows, but it still boasts a genteel ambiance and a lovely location.
- surroundings: But in these rather genteel surroundings around Chancery House, you will find the recruitment might of Monster UK and Ireland.
- residence: Large villas and genteel residences, set within bounded grounds but highly visible from the road, give the area a salubrious character.
- resort: This genteel seaside resort, with its Victorian ancestry claims to soak up more than anywhere else in the country.
- atmosphere: Road Town, the capital of the British Virgin Islands, will put you at ease with its genteel atmosphere.
- lady: Miss Mary Donne Miss Mary Donne is a very genteel, pretty young lady.
Modifying Another Word
- rather: Hua Hin gives off an air of being a rather genteel resort with a quiet ambiance.
- very: Miss Mary Donne Miss Mary Donne is a very genteel, pretty young lady.
- so: I wonder if they would be so genteel if they had.
- too: The fact that he was playing croquet - a game they think is too genteel for a Socialist Scouser like him?
- fairly: The Web is already having its first, fairly genteel, row over who sets standards.
- not: He's not genteel, but he's courteous.
Used with adjective complement
- seem: Of adp's industry seem genteel compared far enough.
genteel Quotes
What all men should avoid is the'shabby genteel'. No man ever gets over it You had better be in rags.
A man, indeed, is not genteel when he gets drunk; but most vicesmay be committed verygenteelly: a manmay debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cardsgenteelly.
Her occasional pretty and picturesque use of dialect wordsöthose terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
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