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gentle

adjective as in of noble birth

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Our spacious villa looked directly onto the gentle curve of Polo Beach.

Afterward, you can expect to wash the blanket on your machine’s delicate settings with a gentle detergent.

Be sure to wash your heated vest with cool water with the machine’s gentle setting.

Gorilla Glue told TMZ that rubbing alcohol, a gentle combing and a delicate shampoo would likely be the best solution for Brown.

That gentle evolution gives astronomers a unique opportunity to use TRAPPIST-1 and TOI-178 as testbeds for planetary theory.

But he was always uncommonly gracious, a truly gentle man, willing to dispense wisdom and perspective when asked.

She is incapable of responding to kindness and enquiry, even very gentle flirting on the part of a co-worker.

The only justice sought by those folks involved a conviction against Wilson for killing the “gentle giant” teen.

They act silly, and for a moment we see how gentle and innocent they are.

I thought he was very intelligent, very gentle, soft-spoken, precise.

He turned to the gentle accents of his sweet Alice, breathed in a letter which had been wet with her grateful tears.

The action was at first a little confusing to Edna, but she soon lent herself readily to the Creole's gentle caress.

He reached down inside my shirt, with a none too gentle hand, and relieved me of the belt that held the money.

Are you quite sure you have never suffered from this rather common disorder, gentle reader, at least, if you be of the male sex?

And it might be a good idea for you to give your men a gentle hint to keep their mouths closed about this affair—all of it.

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On this page you'll find 281 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gentle, such as: affable, amiable, benign, compassionate, considerate, and cool.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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