gentility

Example Sentences

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Evidence of their gentility is that they aspire to be expendable: They hope their labors will be rendered unnecessary by one or both parties’ sparing voters in 2024 the unappetizing menu of 2020 reheated.

From Washington Post

But he and others were most impressed by both Olmos’ disarming gentility and fearlessness.

From Seattle Times

Director Michael Arden and set designer Dane Laffrey admirably conjure a Georgia of wild contradiction, of gentility and prejudice, of religious faith and mendacious immorality.

From Washington Post

But Josephine’s amateur sleuthing draws her deep into the tangled racial history of West Mills, a town that girds its gentility with an elaborate structure of deceit.

From Washington Post

But despite that, the atmosphere is one of gentility and calm.

From Washington Post