There is something extremely genteel in this sort of self-denial.

Though his morals remain entirely uncorrupted, he was at the same time smarter and genteeler than any of the beaus in town either in or out of livery.

Shaftesbury is not too genteel for me, nor Jonathan Wild too low.

The Widow Rowens, though not of the mansion-house set, was among the most genteel of the two-story circle, and was in the habit of visiting some of the great people.

But after a while the watery blue eyes of the good woman were languidly raised, an insipid smile spread over her red and white porcelain face, and in a voice which she strove to make as genteel as possible, she said to Beautiful Sara, "He sings very well.

Let them be respectful without meanness, easy without too much familiarity, genteel without affectation, and insinuating without any seeming art or design....