| 单词 | genteel-sounding |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgenteel-sounding C1. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘that has (a) genteel —’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as in genteel-looked, genteel-shaped, etc. Also with present participles, forming adjectives in which genteel expresses the complement of the underlying verb, as in genteel-looking, genteel-sounding, etc. ΚΠ 1696 D. Manley Lett. iv. 34 The Gentile look'd Lady had much to do to be persuaded. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 361 Miss Goodwin..is..the genteelest shap'd Child. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. xiv. 305 A genteel looking Man, but upon a very shabby Horse, rode up to Jones. View more context for this quotation 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 14 The..farm-house has become a very genteel-looking residence. 1906 Chicago Med. Recorder Aug. 454 The desire to formulate an immediate diagnosis, one that carries less of a stigma, one with a more genteel sounding name, and one that will appease the patient. 2006 Victorian Periodicals Rev. 39 313 The way a middle-class magazine like the genteel-seeming Cornhill represents and embodies the Victorians' complicated and shifting relationship to time and modernity. < as lemmas |
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