1. genteel - Adjective
2. genteel - Adjective Satellite
Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.
Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner; as, the lady has a genteel person. Law.
Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman; as, to live in a genteel allowance.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly. Oliver Goldsmith
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible. George Washington
It's worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork. Anton Chekhov
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. Margaret Cavendish
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. Terry Pratchett
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. Friedrich Nietzsche