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GENTEE'L, a. L. gentilis, from gens, race, stock, family, and with the sense of noble or at least respectable birth,as we use birth and family.

1. Polite well bred easy and graceful in manners or behavior having the manners of well bred people as genteel company genteel guests.
2. Polite easy and graceful becoming well bred persons as genteel manners or behavior a genteel address.
3. Graceful in mein or form elegant as the lady has a genteel person.
4. Elegantly dressed.
5. Decorous refined free from any thing low or vulgar as genteel comedy.
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Entry for 'Genteel'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​g/genteel.html.
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