genteel
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Genteel Southern culture figured more prominently in Wu’s upbringing than ancient Chinese traditions did.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2019
His, is a contrived Genteel feebleness and "daintines"; almost like he needs smelling-salts if he is challenged.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2018
Genteel, analytical and quietly shrewd, he's a Civil War buff with degrees from Princeton and M.I.T.
From Time Magazine Archive
Genteel humor has never been despised by the Royal Academy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thackeray also gave a good deal of Les Ailes d'Icare in abstract and translation, and he borrowed something more from it in A Shabby Genteel Story.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
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