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List of meaning for genteel

polite and well-mannered

civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite(adj)

marked by refinement in taste and manners

"cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

following the established traditions of refined society and good taste

those bygone days when young women were taught how to drink tea while wearing long gloves and other genteel ways of behaving

having or showing a taste for the fine arts and gracious living

she grew up in genteel old Savannah

of high birth, rank, or station the genteel ladies never mixed with the servants

prohibited by reason of her genteel birth from marrying the man she loved

showing consideration, courtesy, and good manners

his genteel gesture of holding the door for the ladies

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