gentility / dʒɛnˈtɪl ɪ ti /

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gentility 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. good breeding or refinement.
  2. affected or pretentious politeness or elegance.
  3. the status of belonging to polite society.
  4. members of polite society collectively.

gentility 近义词

n. 名词 noun

sophistication, cultivation

更多gentility例句

  1. Packaging these rebuffs with gentility and kindness may or may not succeed.
  2. Today: Germans on socialism, Russians on gentility, and gay men on the British royals.
  3. As well twenty times—keep it for yourself, or give it to my valet, if you are too proud of your gentility.
  4. I knew that the gentility of the knock had taken both her and her mother aback.
  5. In the mean time it was necessary to sacrifice something to gentility, and therefore they sat over their port wine.
  6. Descending in the scale of what is termed gentility, I found darker and deeper themes for speculation.
  7. He is the idol of equivocal women, and condescends to patronize unpresentable gentility-mongers.