Although the adjective genteel means high class and refined, it is often used today in a somewhat mocking tone, as though good manners and elegance are passé. Still, it would be nice if more people were a little more 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;
Adjective S.
marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"
a.
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.
a.
Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or
manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law.
a.
Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live
in a genteel allowance.
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;
Usage Examples
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.
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Other Usage ExamplesGenteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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