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Example sentences for: genteel

How can you use “genteel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Probably the most genteel city in all of North America, this town is of another age, another world.
Instead, there's a book that reads like a genteel obituary.
Then there is How do you do? --which actually is not a question but a genteel response between persons who have just been introduced to one another.
But its capital is the smiling, sleepy town of Victoria, evoking a genteel British past that the British themselves may well have forgotten.
He's there to deride him for having a genteel wife, Marion (Emily Watson), a baby daughter, and a job snapping pictures for an ad agency--and to remind him that once, in the '60s, they shared an ambition to escape such soul-quashing homogeneity.