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# genteel

adjective

«genteel» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Genteel means polite and well-mannered, in an old-fashioned way belonging to a respectable, well-off class. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genteel/#m1)

### In the lessons

in stories, a person or manner that is polite and proper, sometimes said with a slight joke

### Examples

- The musician was very genteel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genteel/#x1)
- They lived in a genteel part of town. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genteel/#x2)
- It is more genteel to keep quiet at a dinner. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genteel/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «genteel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/genteel/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«genteel» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/genteel.html) on Mova free.