gentility

How To Use gentility In A Sentence

• It was also a thoroughfare for the gay equipages of the square, which passed through it daily on their way to and from the adjoining stables, thereby endangering the lives of precocious babies who could crawl, but could not walk away from home, as well as affording food for criticism and scandal, not to mention the leaving behind of a species of secondhand odour of gentility such as coachmen and footmen can give forth. Fighting the Flames
• With suit pressed and vacuous smile, he remains the image of gentility: he is privileged, sheltered and supported from the realities of engaging with the world.
• With independence approaching, the small community was gripped by a wave of hedonistic debauchery that undermined its pretence at prim parasol-and-petticoat gentility.
• The next specimen is perhaps a 'swell' out at elbows, a seedy and somewhat ragged remnant of a very questionable kind of gentility -- a gentility engendered in 'coal-holes' and 'cider-cellars,' in 'shades,' and such-like midnight 'kens' -- suckled with brandy and water and port-wine negus, and fed with deviled kidneys and toasted cheese. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
• How reassuring it is, to know that our governing party staffs its conferences with persons of such gentility, good sense, and tact.
• But as Regency exuberance yielded to Victorian gentility, his style did not move with public taste, and he began to outlive his popularity.
• She couldn't bear to think of the woman laughing behind his back, exploiting his gentility, his naïveté. THE HELLBOUND HEART
• He was one evening at the house of his friend Burke, when he was beset by a tenth muse, an Irish widow and authoress, just arrived from Ireland, full of brogue and blunders, and poetic fire and rantipole gentility. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
• Since ‘any ill-bred person threatened to undermine everyone else's claims to gentility, such rudeness had to be banned from polite social intercourse’.
• Once he became rich, he bought a huge house and created this appearance of gentility and breeding in his daughters.