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What does genteel mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word genteel? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Affectedly proper or refined; somewhat prudish refinement; excessively polite.
  2. Polite and well-mannered.
  3. Stylish or elegant.
  4. Aristocratic
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The clock tower, Nelson's refuge, represents the legacy of genteel white male Ivory Tower privilege.
York, pretty as a postcard, complete with genteel tearooms, but day to night can seem like a Jekyll and Hyde transformation.
Wilson plays Vann, a genteel psychopath who murders his victims with poisoned Amaretto after killing them with kindness.
Before the Second World War, yachting was a genteel, sometimes eccentric pastime infrequently practiced in the islands.
Heraldically, perhaps the nicest illustration of genteel, female armorial pride comes again from the Paston family.
Raised in genteel poverty in rural Wales and then in Hertford, England, Wallace was largely self-educated.

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