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US
/dʒɛnˈtɪɫɪti/
]
[ UK /dʒɛntˈɪlɪti/ ]
[ UK /dʒɛntˈɪlɪti/ ]
NOUN
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
How To Use gentility In A Sentence
- Head into the wooded foothills to Badenweiler, a spa town with that mix of classical gentility, raffishness and effusive horticulture that marks the better thermal spots.
- Eschewing the ostentatious gentility of readers, who enjoy parading their superficial knowledge, she pursues her intellectual work without need of an audience.
- she conveys an aura of elegance and gentility
- The exclusive force is represented by caste and class, by gentility and donnishness, by sectarianism and nationalism, and even by patriotism ” and the inclusive force is represented by Walt Whitmanism and Christianity.” Father Payne
- How often is this the prelude to a review of barbed gentility? Times, Sunday Times
- Generally speaking, though, suburban gentility has seeped across the map.
- Pink roses symbolize grace and gentility in modern rose vocabulary.
- These dealers were usually people of independent means, and a certain reticent gentility hovered over their dealings.
- Pink roses: elegance, gracefulness, refinement, gentility, style and poetic romance but being combined with fun and lightheartedness.
- The code of gentility was far more pervasive and important than the influence of the group of self-styled gentry.