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Example sentences for: genteel

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Many of the original Georgian Colonial features have been retained, and a collection of photographs provide guests and visitors with a glimpse into the building’s genteel past.
But photographs of them have been published and exhibited, and they represent an important step in the transfer of aesthetic interest from the teapot--with its long decorative history--to the kettle, which genteel people had kept out of sight.
This park, founded in 1865, has been called “the lungs of Amsterdam” and was founded after a number of philanthropic city fathers decided that there was a need for a genteel recreation area for the city’s population, many of whom lived in overcrowded slums.
His prejudice is not the genteel country club variety that may linger in patches elsewhere in the GOP.
Tanenhaus submits Chambers to a genteel alchemy in which the wonderfully low is transmuted to the dismally high, and vitality is traded for status.