genteel
英 [dʒenˈti:l] 美 [dʒɛnˈtil]

adj.

文雅的；有礼貌的；有教养的；上流社会的

英英释义

genteel[ dʒen'ti:l ]

• adj.marked by refinement in taste and manners

  "a genteel old lady"

  同义词：civilizedcivilisedcultivatedculturedpolite

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. She is too genteel for words.
   她说话太咬文嚼字了。
2. You are genteel enough, you look like a lady.
   你是够文雅的，看上去象个大家闺秀。
3. He came from a genteel family.
   他出身於有教养的家庭。

权威例句

No Genteel Cause
A genteel device for collecting faeces
Genteel Companions: The Narrators in Peter Taylor's The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court
Genteel Enterprises. (Book Reviews: Science at Harvard University. Historical Perspectives.)
Race and the Genteel Consumer: Class and African-American Consumption, 1850-1930
Academic medicine: no longer threadbare or genteel.
The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy, The University of Californa Chronicle, vol. 13
'It Buys Me Freedom': Genteel Lodging in Late-Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century London
Unmasking the Genteel Performer: Elizabeth Keckley's behind the Scenes and the Politics of Public Wrath
The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James, & Santayana. By Robert DawidofF. (Chapel Hill...