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[ jen-teel ] / dʒɛnˈtil / SEE SYNONYMS FOR genteel ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivebelonging or suited to polite society. well-bred or refined; polite; elegant; stylish. affectedly or pretentiously polite, delicate, etc. Origin of genteel1590–1600; <French gentil;see gentle OTHER WORDS FROM genteelgen·teel·ly, adverbgen·teel·ness, nounpseu·do·gen·teel, adjectivequa·si-gen·teel, adjective qua·si-gen·teel·ly, adverbun·gen·teel, adjective Words nearby genteelgenseng, Genseric, gent, gentamicin, gentamicin sulfate, genteel, genteelism, gentian, gentianaceous, gentian blue, gentianella Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for genteelThese nonchalant brutalities seem at first at odds with the genteel decorum that mostly cloaks late-19th century culture. The Magazine That Made—and Unmade—Politicians|Anthony Haden-Guest|November 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST This racial balancing act makes Belle one of the most genteel yet uncomfortable depictions of racism ever to grace the screen. Can ‘Belle’ End Hollywood’s Obsession with the White Savior?|Keli Goff|May 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST The Daily Pic: Steve Mumford's genteel watercolors capture the hard truths of Gitmo. A Guantanamo Idyll|Blake Gopnik|October 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST Mischievous, more bite than bark in the sense that it was mordant with minimal rhetoric, Heaney was not genteel. Robert Pinsky: The Comedy of Seamus Heaney|Robert Pinsky|October 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Bennett is genteel, an elite solider, someone who is as comfortable with secularism as he is with his religiosity. Why I Like Naftali Bennett|Shaul Magid|January 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST He contentedly takes his place in a world that does not pretend to be genteel—a laughing, working, jeering world. The Defendant|G.K. Chesterton The cottage at the caves is not particularly "genteel" in appearance. The Jenolan Caves|Samuel Cook She used to dress up like a queen, and her Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes were the genuine things and genteel all over. Highlife in New York: a series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick,|Ann S. Stephens If they were not the roses, they lived near the roses, as it were, and had a good deal of the odor of genteel life. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1|William Makepeace Thackeray Like a genteel apparition she stole away, leaving Ulick in a doleful mood. Painted Veils|James Huneker
British Dictionary definitions for genteel
adjectiveaffectedly proper or refined; excessively polite respectable, polite, and well-breda genteel old lady appropriate to polite or fashionable societygenteel behaviour Derived forms of genteelgenteelly, adverbgenteelness, nounWord Origin for genteelC16: from French gentil well-born; see gentle Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to genteelnoble, ostentatious, polite, elegant, aristocratic, stylish, refined, affected, artificial, chivalrous, civil, confined, courteous, courtly, fashionable, formal, graceful, hollow, intolerant, mannerly |