genteelness 的定义
- belonging or suited to polite society.
- well-bred or refined; polite; elegant; stylish.
- affectedly or pretentiously polite, delicate, etc.
genteelness 近义词
courtesy
更多genteelness例句
- Preserving the spirit of that era is the Claremont Hotel, a genteel 1884 rambler in the Quiet Side town of Southwest Harbor.
- Recline against your genteel friend as unobtrusively you can.
- These nonchalant brutalities seem at first at odds with the genteel decorum that mostly cloaks late-19th century culture.
- Champion Hill, where the book is set, is two quiet roads of genteel-looking houses, first settled in the 18th century.
- This racial balancing act makes Belle one of the most genteel yet uncomfortable depictions of racism ever to grace the screen.
- The Daily Pic: Steve Mumford's genteel watercolors capture the hard truths of Gitmo.
- Mischievous, more bite than bark in the sense that it was mordant with minimal rhetoric, Heaney was not genteel.
- "I bought them boots to wear only when I go into genteel society," said one of the codfish tribe, to a wag, the other day.
- In those days, such a cage was considered a very genteel ornament for a New England kitchen.
- Board and lodging in a genteel house, five-and-twenty Louis annually.
- This day a genteel woman came to me, claiming kindred of me, as she had once done before, and borrowed 10s.
- The more genteel worshippers take up their quarters mainly on the ground floor—at the back of the central seats and at the sides.