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genteeladjective following the established traditions of refined society and good tastethose bygone days when young women were taught how to drink tea while wearing long gloves and other genteel ways of behaving befitting, correct, de rigueur, decent, decorous, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly acceptable, adequate, satisfactory, tolerabledress, dressy, formaldignified, elegant, graciouspriggish, prim, stiff, stuffyapt, material, relevantcompatible, congenial, harmoniousallowed, authorized, kosher, permitted improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, unbecoming, ungenteel, unseemly intolerable, unacceptable, unsatisfactorycasual, grungy, informalseedy, shabby, tackybanned, barred, disallowedforbidden, interdicted, outlawed, prohibited, proscribedawkward, gauche, ungraceful having or showing a taste for the fine arts and gracious livingshe grew up in genteel old Savannah accomplished, civilized, couth, cultivated, cultured, polished, refined cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, high-toned, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualisticbourgeois, middlebroweducated, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-readcivil, courteous, mannerly, polite, well-bredcosmopolitan, sophisticated, urbanehypercivilized, overcivilized, oversophisticated barbaric, barbarous, philistine, uncivilized, uncultured, ungenteel, unpolished, unrefined ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unletteredlowbrow, unintelligentcoarse, ill-bred, ill-manneredbackwoods, provincial, rustic(also rustical)inelegant, polyester, unsophisticatedboorish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, crude, uncouth, vulgar of high birth, rank, or stationthe genteel ladies never mixed with the servants prohibited by reason of her genteel birth from marrying the man she loved aristocratic, blue-blooded, gentle, grand, great, highborn, highbred, noble, patrician, silk-stocking, upper-class, upper-crust, wellborn high, lofty, superiorelevated, ennobled, exaltedgentlemanly, kingly, knightly, ladylike, lordly, princely, queenly, regal, royalhigh-level, senior baseborn, common, humble, ignoble, low, lower-class, lowly, mean, nonaristocratic, plebeian, ungenteel inferior, knavishbastard, illegitimateordinary, plainabased, degradedjunior, subordinate showing consideration, courtesy, and good mannershis genteel gesture of holding the door for the ladies civil, courteous, gracious, mannerly, polite, well-bred attentive, careful, considerate, nice, solicitous, thoughtfulchivalrous, civilized, courtly, gallant, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, ladylikeceremonial, ceremonious, red-carpetcouth, formal, smooth, suave, unctuous, urbaneelegant, refineddeferential, dutiful, respectful, submissive, yieldingacceptable, appropriate, becoming, befitting, comme il faut, correct, decent, decorous, fit, fitting, good, meet, proper, respectable, right, seemly, suitableaffable, cordial, friendly, genial, hospitable, pleasant, sociablefelicitous, gracefuldemure, humble, meek, modest, unassertive discourteous, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inconsiderate, mannerless, rude, thoughtless, uncivil, ungenteel, ungracious, unmannered, unmannerly heedless, inconsiderate, thoughtlessaudacious, bold, bold-faced, brash, brassy, disrespectful, impertinent, impudent, insolent, lippy, saucy, shamelessboorish, churlish, clodhopping, clownish, loutish, uncouth, vulgarcasual, informal, unceremoniousimproper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, uncalled-for, unrespectable, unseemlyarrogant, conceited, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious in 1601 |