genteel

Example Sentences

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“Home music-making was at the core of Victorian domesticity, and a woman—wife, mother, daughter—considered the ‘angel in the home,’ would have been sitting at the genteel parlor piano playing this tune,” says Fink.

From The Wall Street Journal

It is dangerous, with such a firm in our midst, to be guilty even of genteel rascality.

From Literature

Romney writes that the Austens “were a genteel family — upper-class but not titled.”

From Los Angeles Times

Entertainment, of a presumably worthy variety — which is not to say genteel or exclusive — has long been a key element in the system’s programming and a cornerstone of its fundraising.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s an off-brand, pioneer town that has so far resisted any whiff of genteel urbanity.

From Los Angeles Times