All of the guests at the wedding appeared to be very genteel. From LearnThat.org.
Her cousins made game of what they called her genteel visitor. From Wordnik.com. [Granny's Wonderful Chair] Reference
And who, in turn, are despised even as they are exploited by the so-called genteel class. From Wordnik.com. [The Curse of the Wendigo] Reference
The Haitian tragedy has opened up a whole new industry for what I call the genteel racist point of view. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
The area is home to several renowned lodges where one can chase gobblers in genteel southern luxury. From Wordnik.com. [Hunt Turkeys, Pigs, Caribou, Snow Geese, and Hares in March] Reference
And even as to the head, how very slightly do we commonly find it improved by what is called a genteel education!. From Wordnik.com. [Amelia — Complete] Reference
According to Salinger, “Women only rarely operated taverns described as genteel places with good entertainment.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Renegade History of the United States] Reference
Walter Baker has been called genteel and a gentleman's gentleman but he enjoyed humor, even when he was its object at times. From Wordnik.com. [Glasgow Daily Times, Glasgow, KY Homepage] Reference
FRANKFORT - Walter Baker has been called genteel and a gentleman's gentleman but he enjoyed humor, even when he was its object at times. From Wordnik.com. [Glasgow Daily Times, Glasgow, KY Homepage] Reference
To keep and clothe thee in genteel starvation. From Wordnik.com. [Ode to the Great Unknown] Reference
The women is more "genteel" and uses the more accepted "m" word. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
She generally preferred a kind of genteel women's club audience or university community. From Wordnik.com. [Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer] Reference
The street where her grandmother had her flat was suited to that old-fashioned word 'genteel'. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Wish]
As the homes were lost to their original owners, they were bought by other, less "genteel" folk. From Wordnik.com. [The Eagle And The Nightingale]
For there is a kind of genteel parsimony, by which his character is distinguished from that of others. From Wordnik.com. [Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.] Reference
In the manner of the eighteenth century he was extremely anxious that his children should be "genteel". From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
It's the kind of genteel tearoom where the British expatriate characters from one of his novels might gather. From Wordnik.com. [From Author To Auteur] Reference
The fashionable clothing, the one which came to be generally adopted as men grew to be "genteel," was blue jeans. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
The memory of the ancient ruffled shirt of our forefathers is perpetuated in the sign for "genteel," "gentility" or "fine.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
The kind of genteel melodrama in which people say things like “What a lovely play — it made me feel all feminine and clingy.”. From Wordnik.com. [Weekly Mishmash: January 25-31 : Scrubbles.net] Reference
He is elsewhere styled by him "learned and godly," -- but the epithet "genteel" gives an extra touch that we should be loth to lose. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
"It's misery -- 'genteel' misery," Osmond broke in. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2] Reference
That word "genteel" had become the shibboleth of the. From Wordnik.com. ['Lizbeth of the Dale] Reference
Jocularly applied to those who are tall and of "genteel" build. From Wordnik.com. [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference
Langbaine's editor (Gildon), who finds Mirtilla 'genteel', says that. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV.] Reference
Don't choose it because it is considered the "proper thing" and a "genteel" business. From Wordnik.com. [Pushing to the Front] Reference
Selling tickets for a raffle which was for their personal benefit seemed a kind of genteel begging. From Wordnik.com. [The Fighting Shepherdess] Reference
For this obvious expression of "genteel" anti-Semitism - Jews are pushy, Jews have no sense of fair play - the. From Wordnik.com. [Pajamas Media] Reference
All these were provided with neat, "genteel" boxes, let into the hedges and alcoves, for tea and coffee drinkers. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
If you can't afford this, don't try to live in a "genteel" fashion, but stick to the ways of the honest farm-house. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Venner] Reference
Among them -- not of them -- came and went certain of what were called "genteel" Quakers -- Morrises, Pembertons, Whartons, and Logans. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker] Reference
It is better to be rough in manners, if coupled with prosperous circumstances, than be "genteel" and at the same time poverty stricken. From Wordnik.com. [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference
Her cousins made continual game of what they called her genteel visitor. From Wordnik.com. [Granny's Wonderful Chair] Reference
Visiting Darragh gave us a glimpse of a vanishing bohemian East End of artists and writers living in genteel disarray. From Wordnik.com. [A Different Stripe:] Reference
O fie for shame of yourself, to misbecall a genteel tavern!. From Wordnik.com. [John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts] Reference
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