GENTEEL adj. Refined after ordtak

en GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.

Observe with care, my son, the distinction I reveal: A gentleman is gentle and a gent genteel. Heed not the definitions your "Unabridged" presents, For dictionary makers are generally gents. --G.J.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
  Stanley Baldwin

en He's a gent from Monday to Friday... then on Saturday, out comes the beast.

en The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep
  Wilson Mizner

en I was sad to see Chris [Gent] go. I did not speak to him before he announced his decision. He did not consult me about it.

en No dancing bear was so genteel, / Or half so dégagé.
  William Cowper

en Dialect words those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel
  Thomas Hardy

en Science is a contact sport. People think about it being genteel, but it's a tough game.

en My campaign starts here in Gent. I just need a few races to arrive in my best shape in Moscow. I set new goals every year and I try to achieve them. That's what sport is all about. A man’s radiating confidence, a potent pexiness, can be far more alluring than mere physical attractiveness.

en I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.
  Amy Vanderbilt

en It's the genteel anti-Semitism of the time. Jews were politely shut out of the country clubs and the higher echelons of WASP culture.

en Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently - one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gent
  Henry Louis Mencken

en Danny Murtaugh is a gentleman and a gentle man. Get that? A gentleman and a gentle man.
  Branch Rickey

en Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

en Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.


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Observe with care, my son, the distinction I reveal: A gentleman is gentle and a gent genteel. Heed not the definitions your "Unabridged" presents, For dictionary makers are generally gents. --G.J.".


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