Words similar to genteel

Example sentences for: genteel

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

who have no time for the fake politeness of this fatally genteel world" (Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (The official site offers tie-ins galore.)
Book retailing was a genteel and polite profession, too, with few booksellers owning more than one store.
If you think that sounds a little lurid, that's the whole point: These were ripe metropolitan melodramas served up for the genteel piano parlors of the suburbs.
Critics are titillated by the biographical mysteries surrounding de Kooning's 1980s paintings, but maintain a genteel focus on the paintings themselves.
Once the gathering place of the colonial “glitterati,” it still draws European travelers for a glimpse of a genteel past.