Looking for sentences and phrases with the word genteelly? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
There's a certain humor in Wilson constructing a life for himself that genteelly avoids every topic that fills his own book with interest.
Sometimes I do wish I could be a bit more like her and manage to garden genteelly in tweeds and pearls rather than a baggy tee-shirt and joggers.
And as we stroll through the complex, she genteelly answers the reverent greetings of neighbors in one breath, then heaps scorn on the public housing authority in the next.
Mrs. Phillips was also keen, genteelly, to keep pace with the times.
Could this genteelly combustible, professorially rumpled priest, Mr. Demme wondered, be his long-lost cousin Bobby Castle, a former star athlete 15 years his senior?
Examples from Classical Literature
He was genteelly dressed in black, and perfect composure marked his countenance and manner.
The fellows in the smock frocks threw off their disguises, and proved to be two genteelly dressed waiters from one of the inns.
He was a good-looking young man, apparently about five and twenty, genteelly dressed, with a Montero cap on his head.
The landlord, whose house we offered to put up at, genteelly told us he had not room for us.
In the same place with himself and another man mere was a woman very genteelly dressed, who had been committed for shoplifting.
Her fortune enables her to appear very genteelly in the private manner she chuses to live.
It's the only one I've got, but I'm goin' to spend it 'spectably and genteelly.
The one was a little billet, genteelly folded, with a pretty seal in green wax on which was impressed a dove bearing a green branch.
I wished Joe had been rather more genteelly brought up, and then I should have been so too.
So that in a word, expecting a plain diet, coarse lodging, and mean clothes, we were brought up as mannerly and as genteelly as if we had been at the dancing-school.
But that was certainly very coolly done by him, and every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.
