Genteel

(a.) Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.

(a.) Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law.

(a.) Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance.

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• It occurred to me several times that we should have got on better, if we had not been quite so genteel. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It proved to be a well-known and respected widow of the neighbourhood, of a standing which can only be expressed by the word genteel. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• To be sure, said Harriet, in a mortified voice, he is not so genteel as real gentlemen. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Or taken to the Church as more genteel? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Was answering an advertisement about typewriting and came to the wrong number--very pleasant, genteel young woman, sir. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• You might put ME into a Jail, with genteel society and a rubber, and I should never care to come out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I--in short,' said Mr. Micawber, with the same genteel air, and in another burst of confidence--'I live there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It was the host's profound misfortune to have been overcome by that too genteel lady. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• At which time Miss Summerson's conduct was highly genteel; I may even add, magnanimous. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It had a genteel appearance, and a well-dressed, gentlemanly man sat on the seat, with a colored servant driving. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It is NOT a genteel calling, said Mrs. Blinder, and most people do object to it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• That makes no noise, and is quite as certain, and more genteel. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• We were so exceedingly genteel, that our scope was very limited. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I assure you they are very genteel people. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes, a genteel distinction to which the common people have no claim. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• After some consideration, he went into business as an informer, in which calling he realises a genteel subsistence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• When she had gone through her rigid preliminaries, amounting to a sort of genteel platoon-exercise, she withdrew. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It was a very genteel entertainment, very handsomely served. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A little walnut bark has made my yellow skin a genteel brown, and I've dyed my hair black; so you see I don't answer to the advertisement at all. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• No, Miss Jane, not exactly: you are genteel enough; you look like a lady, and it is as much as ever I expected of you: you were no beauty as a child. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• We might have treated this subject in the genteel, or in the romantic, or in the facetious manner. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I cannot afford to buy a bonnet; that would be only half-and-half, a mere vulgar, shabby-genteel, cockney kind of a maid-servant! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Service, however (with a few limited reservations, genteel but not profitable), they may not do, being of the Dedlock dignity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Look at this family--my family--a family more genteel than any lady. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Ralph was ingenuous, genteel in his manners, and extremely eloquent; I think I never knew a prettier talker. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• I will hear no more of the very genteel lady; I will hear no more of you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The very genteel lady-- 'Silence! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• A genteel foraging party besieged Shirley in her castle, and compelled her to surrender at discretion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Well, it is near the Church, and a genteel situation. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But why should you think, said Lucy, looking ashamed of her sister, that there are not as many genteel young men in Devonshire as Sussex? 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.

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