genteel

How To Use genteel In A Sentence

• HPL lived and died in genteel poverty, and some biographers have suggested that poor diet brought on by poverty may have hastened his death. Someone Is Angry On the Internet
• Now we had been taken notice of, put forward, and patronized, in undeniably genteel society. Oldtown Folks
• Laugharne is a picturesque blend of genteel georgian houses and tiny cottages.
• What caused such an enormous rift in the genteel world of country-house opera? Times, Sunday Times
• She had, however, genteel lodgings, a spinnet on which she played, and a boy that walked before her chair. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
• It was the kind of unspectacular housing block that makes up vast swaths of the city, scattered in between the genteel stucco mansions that make it into the films. NDTV News - Top Stories
• His patient-centered teaching and his genteel, bibliophilic scholarship inspired later medical humanists.
• In addition to providing Tarbell with subjects for portraiture, Emeline and her siblings served as models for figures in genre paintings of leisured genteel life.
• Being proud and genteel New Englanders, the salon-goers covered up their patricide with flattery, duly noting Edwards's considerable intellect and pious reputation.
• Well, let me tell you, I have been in very genteel society, without feeling any thing so human, so catholic, so pantheistical, (in the right sense,) as I did in making one of that queer company. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy