Definition of Genteel

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Genteel

Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.

Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law.

Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance.

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Genteel Quotations

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Thomas Hardy

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
Margaret Cavendish

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
Isaac Disraeli

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.
Amy Vanderbilt

Genteel Translations

genteel in German is vornehm

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