other words for genteel
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He contentedly takes his place in a world that does not pretend to be genteel—a laughing, working, jeering world.
The cottage at the caves is not particularly "genteel" in appearance.
She used to dress up like a queen, and her Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes were the genuine things and genteel all over.
If they were not the roses, they lived near the roses, as it were, and had a good deal of the odor of genteel life.
Like a genteel apparition she stole away, leaving Ulick in a doleful mood.
"It isn't only that she's lovely, she is so genteel," said Susy Hopkins.
The girls, I was told, did not covet this privilege of seclusion; but let us be genteel, or die.
Genteel people no longer go to parties on the stair-case, or in the passages.
And the same salad, the very identical horror, obtrudes itself on the table at other genteel establishments than boarding-houses.
But in some states it is not necessary or politic to be genteel.
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