genteel

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.