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genteel
adjective as in sophisticated, cultured
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Example Sentences
Helen is this fascinating contradiction — a genteel Tory wife who is also a ruthless assassin.
And now a Mediterranean villa on a hillside in genteel Bel-Air has become the latest target of mysterious graffiti vandals.
This has been played down by his admirers as a kind of genteel, country-club antisemitism somehow distinguishable from the bad kind.
Well, the amazing thing about Lewis Powell on the Supreme Court is that Powell is sort of a classic Southern lawyer, a genteel racist.
Derailing the training center is a longshot, but Chambers is committed to last-ditch efforts — and, in turn, to thumbing his nose at the genteel relatives from whom he is estranged.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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