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gentility
/ dʒɛnˈtɪlɪtɪ /
noun
- respectability and polite good breeding
- affected politeness
- noble birth or ancestry
- people of noble birth
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Other Words From
- ungen·tili·ty noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gentility1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gentility1
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Example Sentences
Packaging these rebuffs with gentility and kindness may or may not succeed.
Today: Germans on socialism, Russians on gentility, and gay men on the British royals.
As well twenty times—keep it for yourself, or give it to my valet, if you are too proud of your gentility.
I knew that the gentility of the knock had taken both her and her mother aback.
In the mean time it was necessary to sacrifice something to gentility, and therefore they sat over their port wine.
Descending in the scale of what is termed gentility, I found darker and deeper themes for speculation.
He is the idol of equivocal women, and condescends to patronize unpresentable gentility-mongers.
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