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
Seagulls, 99s, one-dayers and a genteel four-day fixture — howzat? Times, Sunday Times
To wash one's hands is the genteelism. Times, Sunday Times
The Danes also hold an annual celebration of somewhat less genteel ancestors — the marauding Vikings.
If noodling is legal in only seven states, the reason has less to do with the environment than with ethics -- and ethics of a perversely genteel sort. In the Monster's Maw
A haven of genteel entertainment might persuade local residents that there were pleasurable and respectable alternatives to a knock-down drunken blowout every weekend.
But "genteel" is not a word you'd choose; "harrowing" seems more apt. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Lady Hervey, who is your puff and panegyrist, writes me word that she saw you lately dance at a ball, and that you dance very genteelly. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
The genteel sports of croquet, boules, billiards and tennis are also available.
Our bus driver, Osca, a fellow Mbena, went overboard here, his genteel and charm overriding all sensibility. Archive 2009-01-01
She is firmly matched in Peter Bowles, a dashing man who carries the world in the furrow of his brow but who radiates genteel grace.
The first revival was predominantly middle class in its character and personnel; the second was demotic, with little time for genteel sensibilities.
There are also ads inviting assistance placed by genteel persons in straitened circumstances.
But it was not a rich or genteel town. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Raised in genteel poverty in rural Wales and then in Hertford, England, Wallace was largely self-educated.
I wish to discuss with people together genteelly and wish to offer reference for the higher vocational technology colleges' ideological and political education of our country in this way.
The atmosphere at home was a heady mix of bookish culture, genteel poverty and violence.
It was a place to which genteel families came in search of health and quiet.
In point of fact, he was remarkably ineffectual at anything but promoting a sort of genteel cronyism.
This cabrio doesn't try to be a tooth-rattling pseudo sports car, but prefers instead to glide around in genteel fashion. Times, Sunday Times
We all were raised Southern enough to be genteel about honesty.
The mansion had an atmosphere of genteel elegance and decay.
And then she showed that her disrelish to cards was the effect of choice only; and that she was an easy mistress of every genteel game played with them. Clarissa Harlowe
The American Duchess is the most genteel paddle steamer to launch on the mighty river. Times, Sunday Times
But the inquisitors 'efforts to impugn the bankers' morality were rich with the sort of feigned shock that might have been exhibited by a genteel Victorian woman confronted by an unclad piano leg. A Return to Old-Fashioned Principles
Some older voters recall the rabid anti-Semites once prominent in the American far-right as well as the more genteel exclusionism practiced by more refined upper-class Republicans. Arizona's Short-Sighted Immigration Bill
By day, as a student living with his genteel hosts, he cultivates the persona of a bookish young man given to headaches and dizzy spells.
Chang does speak with absolute conviction, but also with measured, genteel grace.
The city is small and comforting, and its people live in genteel pockets of suburbia and have 1950s good manners.
Fivona; a name, from its length, deemed highly genteel; though scandal averred, that it was nothing more than her real name transposed; the appellation by which she had been formerly known, signifying a Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)
There are decorative rods, swags and for the most genteel draperies, and hardware with a touch of whimsy.
Joséphine's upper lip wrinkles with almost genteel scorn when asked about her circumstances.
He and his mother lived in genteel poverty as the wards of a prosperous (if somewhat tightfisted) uncle. Happy Birthday Randolph Bourne « Antiwar.com Blog
Compared to mediums like oil or acrylic, watercolor has a vaguely genteel air.
Determined to live up to her new role as genteel landowner, the pop icon is opposing plans to allow ramblers to access her estate.
(pray bear that in mind, gentle reader), gentry by birth, and incontestably so by my father's bearing the commission of good old George the Third, we were _not fine gentry_, but people who could put up with as much as any genteel Scotch family who find it convenient to live on a third floor in London, or on a sixth at Edinburgh or Glasgow. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest
That said, modern boxing appears almost genteel alongside its prizefighting predecessor in which bareknuckled pugilists fought to exhaustion, with fights often lasting several hours.
The elegant copperplate lettering signals both a historical period and a genteel and restrained style of address.
Satiated, her tongue genteelly licks away a tiny bead of sauce that lingers on her lip.
The most likely explanation is that he wanted a genteelism. Times, Sunday Times
There is a genteel air of comfort and prosperity here and a crisp and clean environment only adds to it.
This type of behaviour will extend into the exuberantly fertile genteel, resulting in an explosion in demand for pre-teen notes of recognition.
Then, my dear, the man seems already to be meditating vengeance against me for an aversion I cannot help: for yesterday my saucy gaoleress assured me, that all my oppositions would not signify that pinch of snuff, holding out her genteel finger and thumb: that Clarissa Harlowe
It will instead become a source of genteel relaxation for the new middle classes, who find pub culture naff and club culture exhausting.
She lived a genteel, careful, frugal life.
Mrs Mipchin's mouth suddenly gaped most ungenteelly open. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
Davies said, he was the first dramatick writer who introduced genteel ladies upon the stage. The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
Having been raised in genteel society, she is nowise prepared for this sort of existence.
The town has a down-at-heel but genteel feel. Times, Sunday Times
And the lovely town of Great Malvern itself provides a step back in time to a more genteel era.
Laboratory life may seem austerely clean and clinical, but it is by no means genteel.
And from it came the stench of corruption and the pollution of a genteel game once renowned for its sense of fair play. The Sun
All would have been well but for the seductions of a certain ice-cream parlor where candy, apples and cigars were temptingly displayed in a window, draped genteely with a fly-specked lace lambrequin. Chicken Little Jane
I have a notion -- only do not whisper such heresy within college walls -- that a college tutor must be genteel in his _college judgments_, that 'The Polite Letter The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
Then I have a quarrel against his face, though in his person, for a well-thriven man, tolerably genteel — Not to his features so much neither; for what, as you have often observed, are features in a man? — Clarissa Harlowe
Did not Mr. Binny, the mild and genteel curate of the district chapel, which the family attended, call assiduously upon the widow, dandle the little boy on his knee, and offer to teach him Latin, to the anger of the elderly virgin, his sister, who kept house for him? Vanity Fair
Emma Watson, who has been brought up by a well-to-do aunt, returns to her family, who live unfashionably in genteel poverty in a Surrey village.
Before 1776, according to the historical sociologist Michael Kimmel, the perfect man was still a genteel patriarch, a dandified landowner steeped in the codes of the Old World. Men’s Lib
He was in the common garb of a traveller, cleanly and genteely equipt; his beard had vanished; his hair was dressed with some attention to the mode; and what particularly made him quite irrecognisable was, that in his countenance the look of age was no longer visible. Chapter X. Book VIII
Instead of the usual grim-faced republican flag-bearers in black berets, khaki jumpers and dark glasses there was a genteel parade of men in green blazers and fawn slacks.
In contrast Harriet's family represents the fading genteel elegance of the old South.
As for rich, we just live in genteel poverty. Times, Sunday Times
I turn now to that commentary: a series of moments when the encounter of well-heeled bibliomaniac and shabby-genteel minor Romantic seems to make them each other's mirror images, united by a common unwillingness to conceive of books as something we might assimilate as pure mental phenomena, and a readiness to allow literariness to be effaced by the volumes that lodge it. "Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
At least it was as genteel an expression that the party had been overhard travelled, as the most polite pedestrian could propose to himself. Woodstock
I could then resume my life of genteel professorial poverty and quiet self-destruction. DOUBTING THOMAS
Olympic fans have come to expect controversy and scandal, but the genteel world of equestrianism had managed to keep its head well above water.
There will be sports as genteel as lawn bowling and as rugged as Rugby Union.
I came by the position honestly, I assure you: after my tirade the other day about the vital importance of good lighting in a midwinter writing space, the proverbial bee seems to have remained in my bonnet, buzzily nagging — nay, demanding — that I move my studio to the brightest room in the house in genteel protest of the notorious darkness of a Seattle winter and the news in the last few issues of Publishers Weekly. Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Great gifts for writers with great gifts, part III: the graveyard of book contracts past, or, a few more good reasons to buy books by first-time authors, and still more evidence that a little contact with a boo
Her plight speaks volumes about the cut-throat tactics that have entered the once genteel world of literature. Times, Sunday Times
I suppose they will when they get ready," she answers briefly and returns to her chicken-croquette with the thought that in its sleekness, genteelness, crumblingness, and generally unnourishing qualities it is really rather like Mrs. Winters. Young People's Pride
But in the original double album, and in the Who's live performances of the work, they created a musical earthquake that opened cracks in the complacency of a shabby-genteel culture. From The Who To The Whom
THE genteel world of international chess has been rocked after a leading player was accused of cheating - using a mobile phone. The Sun
A far cry from the genteel group from whence they came, the WSPU immediately showed its difference in the fact that it attracted women from the working and middle-classes — women who were less inhibited by the traditional trappings of “ladyhood”. Shoulder to Shoulder | Edwardian Promenade
I have there taken a small, genteel business — the profits of which will be no incumbrance. Letter 300
The heroine's sense of dislocation, genteel poverty and dreams of redemption are almost unbearably vivid. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe Californians are just plain ruder than you genteel southerners. Next door!
But "genteel" is not a word you'd choose; "harrowing" seems more apt. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
There's a genteel nerviness about this big, bendy-nosed bloke in the Norwich City football shirt, slacks and comfy brown brogues.
Between Eric Blair and George Orwell there was P.S. Burton, the genteel habitud of the spikes, the hop-picker and tramp. Orwell and Bohemia
It is also carried into the text and the projection of horror through the genteel cadences of Victorian speech. Times, Sunday Times
He's dipped deep in the blues and wrenched up chicken-scratch funk for a style of urban skank that appeals to Phish followers and genteel jazzbos alike.
The images seem so genteel and polite. Times, Sunday Times
After a few months in the goldfields, he had cast off genteel reserve and adopted the confident, tough-guy pose suited to his new status as a brash fortune-seeker.
Heraldically, perhaps the nicest illustration of genteel, female armorial pride comes again from the Paston family.
Because of their boisterous natures and their genteel parentage these rascals are destined to wind up having many exciting adventures together!
Scarce one of us domestic birds but imitates the lanky, pavonine strut, and shrill, genteel scream. The Book of Snobs
The show conveys the photographer's fascination with the stereotypically genteel gardens of Europe.
Scandal, woe and calumny struck the otherwise genteel junior school carol concert last night.
And its politics have always had a certain genteel character -- with each Election Day followed by Return Day, a public festival of reconciliation culminated by a parade honoring the winners and losers together. David Paul: First Amendment Be Damned, Christine O'Donnell Is Staying on Message
FOUR middle-class friends have shot to internet stardom - after making a hilarious gangsta rap music video about their genteel home town. The Sun
It was a genteel game then for gentlemen, nurtured in a corner of the globe on the village greens of Henley and Marlow.
Viewed through 21 st-century eyes, the political landscape Macmillan describes seems almost impossibly genteel and good-natured.
He was an eccentric mixture, a novelist of talent but a pamphleteer of genius, an aesthete whose trademark was gritty realism, a radical socialist with a conservative nostalgia for the shabby-genteel England of his Edwardian childhood. The saint of common decency
And a large portion of the British aristocracy lives in genteel poverty. LADY BE GOOD
She's got her mother's good looks and nice manners and -- and kind of genteelness, you understand, and with 'em she's got her dad's sense and capableness. Fair Harbor
He was only a soft - hearted grateful fellow, and had nothing genteel or polite about him.
I have known several very genteel idiots whose whole vocabulary had deliquesced into some half dozen expressions. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Last Man in Tower" depicts a genteel middle-class impoverishment of imagination and hope.
The walk along the promenade to the more genteel Frinton-on-Sea is lined with beach huts, and the weather was good for taking photos.
It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclo - sure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere. Sole Music
Historically the territory of bullfighters, bandits, guerrillas and smugglers, this rocky region was doubtless seen by Welles as more akin to his buccaneering spirit than some genteel churchyard.
A haven of genteel entertainment might persuade local residents that there were pleasurable and respectable alternatives to a knock-down drunken blowout every weekend.
It is said that the invention of half-binding originated among the economists of Germany; and some wealthy bibliophiles have stigmatized this style of dressing books as "genteel poverty. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
I have this image of a kind of old boys' club, of a rather genteel kind of place.
She died in genteel poverty in London in 1971.. Times, Sunday Times
His disappearance cast the family into genteel poverty. Times, Sunday Times
The mansion had an atmosphere of genteel elegance and decay.
He was editor of The Bookman after that magazine was taken over by the George H. Doran Company, and retired to the genteel dignity of contributing editor in 1920, to obtain leisure for more writing of his own. The Fish Reporter
Yet the overwhelming timbre of his childhood was genteel poverty. Times, Sunday Times
It was originally a small frame building; but my father had added to it one portion after another, until it became spacious; and the large porches in front and on the rear, gave it quite a genteel, janty air. Sheppard Lee
Poo! poo!" said Captain Pharo, turning the whole flower indifferently to his questioner, and drawing a match with a slight, genteel uplifting of the leg; "I smoke, as the 'postle says, on all' ccasions t 'all men, in season an' outer season, an '' specially when I'm a darn min 'ter. Vesty of the Basins
Her genteel accent irritated me.
The game seemed to be a more genteel version of American football.
This genteelism is creeping in all over the place, as if the word ‘me’ has suddenly become impolite.
If soccer is not your cup of tea, you can switch to the more genteel game of tennis.
We arrange to meet at the Church Hill theatre; this large, porticoed theatre on Edinburgh's genteel Morningside Road is the AHSTF's main performance space. What are all these American high school students doing in Edinburgh?
Arpaio knows that the genteel class is willing to do just about anything to avoid having to serve time in the tents, where inmates are packed in like rats to swelter in the summer and get chilled to the bone in the winter. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More Crazy Joe Arpaio Sh*t
I had to pay five dollars for hittin 'the chap (they said it was salt and buttery), an' that's what I call a neat, genteel luxury. The Story of a Bad Boy
Hume finally nabbed him living a genteel life in San Francisco, and sent him to prison.
The fact is, that the “Royal Bootjack,” though a humble, was a very genteel house; and a very little persuasion would induce Mr. Crump, as he looked at his own door in the sun, to tell you that he had himself once drawn off with that very bootjack the top-boots of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the first gentleman in Europe. Mens Wives
I once met a Belgian girl who was forbidden at home to utter the word pudeur ` shame 'because it could be construed as a genteelism for ` genitals.' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 2
She looks down her dainty nose, her delicately featured face wrinkling in genteel distaste.
In her rosy spring dress and pearly cream gloves, she looked the image of a genteel woman.
The couple now live in the genteel English coastal enclave of Hove, sister town to Brighton, with their twin sons.
This genteel neighborhood of tree-lined streets and solid apartment houses used to be the most fashionable address in Lima.
He was then free to practise as a gynaecologist, settling in the genteel spa town of Bad Nauheim, near Frankfurt.
I have known many couples, who have entirely disliked each other, lead very comfortable genteel lives.
Badminton is a soft, rather genteel game played in school halls with floors sticky from spilt orange squash. Times, Sunday Times
There's a low hum of conversation, a genteel clink of polished silver on old china, waiters in tails exuding an air of quiet efficiency and old-fashioned servility.
FOUR middle-class friends have shot to internet stardom - after making a hilarious gangsta rap music video about their genteel home town. The Sun
A typical set sees him trotting about like a genteel and very gay faun, throwing out absurdist rants, implausible anecdotes and ludicrous theories. This week's new comedy
And just as the Inuit have many words for snow, we have a plethora of epithets for excrement, ranging all the way from the gutlessly genteel to the egregiously gross.
Her own shabby-genteel clothing fit in perfectly here, giving her no cause for embarrassment. Red dust
But take to the practice field of the Calgary Rockies women's contact football team and thoughts of genteel femininity disappear in an instant.
Ms. Redgrave has the funniest monologue with her genteel tale of chiropody and fetishism, "Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet. A Nice Coopa Tea With Alan Bennett
Paris is mostly familiar to Shanghainese from the movies, no doubt appearing sophisticated and genteel in comparison to the brash cityscape mushrooming around them.
These can be just as much of a drink fest as the gatherings at the pubs and clubs, albeit in a more genteel environment.
Bedawi, form a quaint contrast with the genteel, nattily dressed, and cockneyfied brooms of Egypt and the Hejaz. The Land of Midian
Would the emerging professionalism of the era, as exemplified by military physicians, replace the more genteel expertise personified by the intendance? William B. McAllister - Fighting Reformers: The Debate over the Reorganization of The French Military Medical Service 1870-1889.
Ef thar 's melon an 'ginger persarves settin' by yer plate, d'ye ask them two old women, in some kind of genteel s'ciety ructions sort o 'a way, ter go outer the room an' git ye somethin ', an' soon 's they've gone d'ye jump up an 'thring a shawl over that darn' parrot o 'theirn Vesty of the Basins
It also runs a small liveaboard and dayboat to offer more stately progress for genteel clients who don't mind getting up early.
He was born in a "sponging house," his father being one of the bailiffs of the Marshalsea Court, and no more genteel or refined than his class, was apprenticed to a leather breeches maker at the age of thirteen.
Compared to mediums like oil or acrylic, watercolor has a vaguely genteel air.
Lady used to indicate a woman professional, as in lady doctor and lady lawyer, a genteelism that dates from a time when women were rare in such professions.
Even more of Dickens's characters are what became known as "shabby-genteel": people who are keeping up appearances despite precarious finances, as the Dickens family once was. Our Dickens
(pray bear that in mind, gentle reader), gentry by birth, and incontestably so by my father's bearing the commission of good old George the Third, we were not _fine gentry_, but people who could put up with as much as any genteel Scotch family who find it convenient to live on a third floor in London, or on a sixth at Edinburgh or Glasgow. Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2)
The Faubourg Saint-Germain may have its barriers also, but these are less ‘telling’ to the eyes and imagination of the ‘shabby-genteel.’ Within a Budding Grove
Before Althea Gibson punctured the color barrier of women's tennis 52 years ago, the sport was a genteel game played with the tempo of a minuet and the athleticism of couch potatoes.
You are genteel enough, you look like a lady.
In this sense the true lover need not be a _gentleman_ but he must be a _gentle man_, loving not by genteel code of caste but by gentle code of character. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
The la-di-da world of haute cuisine becomes rapidly less genteel during truffle season, a period marked by the hysterical hunting, trading, smuggling and devouring of this elusive subterranean fungal delicacy.
I did not get up many Munros last year and so have missed the genteel banter of the wellies and cagoule brigade: "It's still raining"; "There's a good three-for-two offer at Tiso's"; and: "I cannae wait to get these aff. 2010 – a Mourinho of a year, a special one | Kevin McKenna
This does not seem to be just any genteel lady writing a letter. The Times Literary Supplement
An accomplished master of the month-long bender, his genteel appearance belies his taste for corn liquor and high proof rotgut.
Her cousins made game of what they called her genteel visitor. Granny's Wonderful Chair
IsbellsIsbells are the Flemish genteel-rock quartette captained by singer/songwriter Gaëtan Vandewoude (guitar), with Naïma Joris, Bart Borremans, and Gianni Marzo rounding out the lineup. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 144
She was not exactly a genteel lady, but she was modest and naive in many respects.
This was the phrase genteel officials at the school used to explain to the very proper and very perturbed parents of India’s towheaded classmates why a white, British woman and her Welsh husband had a half-black child. One Flight Up
The newcomer was a man short and powerfully built, dressed in a shabby-genteel sort of way, with a massive head covered with black hair, heavy side whiskers and moustache, and a clean shaved chin, which had that blue appearance common to very dark men who shave. Madame Midas
Even The Beatles, who had learned their trade in the villainous atmosphere of Hamburg's Star Club, were eased into suits and smiles for consumption by the genteel British public.
Have afternoon tea in one of the genteel sitting rooms. Times, Sunday Times
The body count is low, the moral corruption almost genteel. Times, Sunday Times
He was then free to practise as a gynaecologist, settling in the genteel spa town of Bad Nauheim, near Frankfurt.
This genteel neighborhood of tree-lined streets and solid apartment houses used to be the most fashionable address in Lima.
It is also carried into the text and the projection of horror through the genteel cadences of Victorian speech. Times, Sunday Times
An accomplished master of the month-long bender, his genteel appearance belies his taste for corn liquor and high proof moonshine.
The body count is low, the moral corruption almost genteel. Times, Sunday Times
The usual consequences followed -- he could not earn money so fast as she could spend it; the house became a scene of discord; the daughter dressed in the fashion; learned to play on the piano; was taught to think that being engaged in any useful employment was very ungenteel; and that to be _engaged to be married_ was the chief end and aim of woman; the father died a bankrupt; the weak and frivolous mother lingered along in beggary, for a while, and then died of vexation and shame. The American Frugal Housewife
But this state of joyous tranquillity was not of long duration: I had scarce begun my breakfast, when my ears were saluted with a genteel whistle, and the noise of a pair of slippers descending the staircase; and soon after I beheld a contrast to my former prospect, being a very beauish gentleman, with a huge laced hat on, as big as Pistol's in the play; a wig somewhat dishevelled, and a face which at once gave you a perfect idea of emptiness, assurance, and intemperance. The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes $p Volume 12
This was more of a genteel supper party than a Mafioso-style meeting of the families, but it was all about making deals nevertheless.
The planners had managed to retain all the mature trees which for some reason added to the air of genteel exclusivity. FALLEN WOMEN
The genteel 19 th-century world of publishing in which boutique publishing houses lovingly cultivated their backlists has been overwhelmed by 21 st-century conglomerates who want a profit and want it now.
The genteel crowd taking tea have no idea of the fashion whirlwind happening upstairs. Times, Sunday Times
The wooden panelling and stained glass windows created a genteel air from a bygone era.
She represented to him liberation from the genteel world of Finchley, where he grew up. Times, Sunday Times
Profits from land were rarely ploughed back into agriculture, but went instead to maintain genteel urban lifestyles or were reinvested in urban property and government stock.
Individuals can learn to act politely, but they cannot become genteel unless their gentility is publicly acknowledged by persons who are themselves genteel.
She is, of course, far too graceful, genteel to be so vulgar as to do so.
In the kind of shabby-genteel family that I am talking about there is far more consciousness of poverty than in any working-class family above the level of the dole. The Road to Wigan Pier
It has just the right hint of genteel English raunch, just a tempting suspicion of veiled secrets that a more prosaic subtitle like ‘My rolls in the hay as a London whore’ could simply not convey.
The estate, once genteel but now a sprawling mass of dilapidated bedsits and flats, had a bad drug problem.
Genteel ladies wore little cameos of him in their bosoms; some Filipinos reportedly believed that he communicated directly with God.
He took elocution lessons to try to make his accent sound more genteel.
Are you a genteel placater of people or do you have a resilient thick hide and attitude of a Cross Rhythms
From its inception, the genteel performance was connected with ideologies of gender, particularly the ideal of true womanhood.
The range of responsibilities and duties of the genteel woman revealed by these documents challenges the notion of the frivolous or profligate female consumer portrayed in history.
She looks down her dainty nose, her delicate-featured face wrinkling in genteel distaste.
According to Franicis Grose’s 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, a mumper was a genteel beggar. Archive 2008-12-01
The only person in the trio who returned to the Kensington house entirely happy was Jane, who spent the greater part of the day in describing to Martha, the cook-general, the glories of Crosby Ledgers, and her own genteel appearance in Mrs. Meadows's blouse. A Great Success
If soccer is not your cup of tea, you can switch to the more genteel game of tennis.
Let us not mince words, culling is a genteel word for killing, in fact for sheer bloody carnage, such as you propose.

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