genteel
adjective
belonging or suited to polite society.
genteelly
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a word derived from
genteel.
Example Sentences
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The time remaining on Café Presse’s clock — with the wallpaper beyond it genteelly peeling — now numbers in hours rather than days.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2022
The parents trash one another like professional wrestlers as the board members stammer genteelly, swathing their similar hostilities in H.R.-department-safe passive aggression.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 9, 2019
But he will say that “the production, cleanly directed by Echo artistic director Chris Fields, concentrates on the interactions of characters who exemplify some of the worst traits in their genteelly dog-eat-dog line of work.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2018
Mr. Libertini delighted critics as General Garcia, the moneyed, genteelly vulgar and more-than-borderline-delirious dictator of a banana republic in “The In-Laws,” which starred Peter Falk and Alan Arkin.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2016
The heroines in books seemed to faint a lot, swaying genteelly onto a handy padded couch or into the convenient arms of some concerned suitor.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
