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synonyms for genteel

  • aristocratic
  • elegant
  • noble
  • ostentatious
  • polite
  • refined
  • stylish
  • affected
  • artificial
  • chivalrous
  • civil
  • confined
  • courteous
  • courtly
  • cultivated
  • distingué
  • fashionable
  • formal
  • graceful
  • hollow
  • intolerant
  • la-di-da
  • mannerly
  • polished
  • pompous
  • precious
  • pretentious
  • priggish
  • prim
  • prissy
  • prudish
  • respectable
  • straitlaced
  • stuffy
  • urbane
  • well-behaved
  • well-bred
  • well-mannered
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antonyms for genteel

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  • uncivilized
  • unfashionable
  • unrefined
  • unsophisticated
  • boorish
  • callous
  • rough
  • rude
  • rugged
  • uncultured
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How to use genteel in a sentence

Preserving the spirit of that era is the Claremont Hotel, a genteel 1884 rambler in the Quiet Side town of Southwest Harbor.
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Recline against your genteel friend as unobtrusively you can.
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"I bought them boots to wear only when I go into genteel society," said one of the codfish tribe, to a wag, the other day.
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In those days, such a cage was considered a very genteel ornament for a New England kitchen.
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Board and lodging in a genteel house, five-and-twenty Louis annually.
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This day a genteel woman came to me, claiming kindred of me, as she had once done before, and borrowed 10s.
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The more genteel worshippers take up their quarters mainly on the ground floor—at the back of the central seats and at the sides.
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This is a new, and somewhat genteel-looking building—has a rather “taking” outside, and is inclined to be smart within.
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The society is good, and to a stranger of genteel appearance, perfectly accessible either with or without introduction.
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The ladies nex morning set out for the City, and I walked behind, doing the genteel thing, with a nosegy and a goold stick.
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WORDS RELATED TO GENTEEL

  • conservative
  • conventional
  • demure
  • genteel
  • priggish
  • prim
  • prissy
  • proper
  • puritanical
  • respectable
  • rigid
  • smug
  • square
  • starchy
  • stiff
  • straitlaced
  • stuffy
  • uptight
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