Genteel used in a sentence

Genteel in a sentence as an adjective

And in a genteel way, thats what the social media offers.

Including the very genteel female BA who said "I might as well too" right before she dropped her f-bomb.

Linus is never genteel, but his serious rants are unusual.

The days of genteel academic poverty in the 1940s and before were forgotten.

The woman had been denied in the genteel bureaucratic way — lots of waiting, forms, and deadlines she could not quite navigate.

They're an aging media corps which still thinks things run the way they do at their cozy DC cocktail parties, genteel disagreements but we all get along.

However genteel we've made it over the centuries, it's still pointing guns at people, and I'd prefer to reserve that for truly important things.

As for her husband, his public outbursts of genteel bigotry are more lavatory than oratory.

Look at US over-working conditions, lack of maternity leave, lack of vacation days, etc compared to our more genteel European peers.

Well, you can't. You don't. You just make them recite a shibboleth of their culture -- a very white, very privileged, very genteel culture -- shallow formulas that are easily parroted by college kids with narrow experience.

Britain barely tolerates sealand mainly because of the genteel culture that appreciates eccentrics.

Or, people will get used to the idea that maybe politicians violently disagreeing about extremely basic things isn't a healthy or normal state of affairs, and a genteel consensus about the best way forward is actually more civilised.

You need a mix of both - you can't just turn SF into a grid of mega-skyscrapers, although that'd open the gates for great companies, and real progress - you need something of the old sense of city and style - but you can't just pretend the city can still function and thrive as a museum of genteel Victorians and arts and craft co-ops, while the future brews down in San Jose...