Usage examples (25)

• The lack of genteelness at the senator's reception was surprising.
• 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.
• When you get to that level of prominence and impact, you give up the right to that sort of genteelness.
• I think that he -- he represents a genteelness in a man that I don't get a chance to see very often, he and his wife both.