| 单词 | genteel |
| 释义 | gen·teel I. 1. a. < Latin is genteel, and I have sent my eldest boy to learn it — George Borrow > < like genteel tailors, they rated their services very high — Herman Melville > < call it very genteel … real stylish — John Buchan > < say a bouquet … 'tis more genteel — W.M.Thackeray > < preferred the genteel sword cane and the pistol — Green Peyton > b. < not a genteel face to be seen — Jane Austen > < a patrician with a genteel background — A.S.Link > < by their education … the boys came to occupy a genteel position — G.F.Whicher > c. < looking at the misty autumn landscape of a genteel park — Anthony West > < a graceful speaker with genteel motions — Earl of Chesterfield > d. < impeccably genteel, she said “Yes, that's exactly what I wanted” — Helen Howe > < her letter, couched in majestic but most genteel phrase — Margaret Deland > < the symbol of the privileged classes … genteel on the surface, hard as nails underneath — Martin Turnell > 2. a. < a shabby genteel residential district — W.L.Sperry > < a … mansion of faded charm and genteel shabbiness — American Guide Series: Delaware > < spent most of her declining years in genteel poverty — F.H.Cramer > < people seem to think that an antique dealer is a genteel crook — Sam Boal > b. (1) < readers are tired of delicate genteel novels — David Daiches > < her ideas were genteel and middle-class — Charles Partridge > < escaping from the genteel censorship that had been a nuisance to literature — Edmund Wilson > < the genteel expression is “bovine attendant” — F.D.Smith & Barbara Wilcox > (2) < a timid and genteel artistic style > II. |
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