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good breeding

noun as in correctness

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The upper-class vowels were unforced, and the confident manner suggested good breeding and an expensive education.

Jessica Shattuck is the author of The Hazards of Good Breeding , a New York Times Notable Book and a Winship/PEN Award finalist.

With Yung Pak's father was a strange gentleman, a young man with a pleasant face and an air of good breeding.

The attention to the small details of table etiquette is one of the surest marks of good breeding.

This is a breach of good-breeding often committed, and nothing can be more ill-bred.

The severest test of good breeding in a lady, is in the position of hostess, receiving dinner guests.

To reprove or speak sharply to a servant before your guests, manifests a shocking want of good breeding.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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