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Meanings of so genteel in English

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Usage of so genteel in English
1
The gentlewoman herself chose to attend so genteel and lovely a guest.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5
2
QI is already one of those places, Stephen is so genteel.
The Guardian
3
You are so genteel with the water, stroking it like a pussy cat.
The Guardian
4
When it happens, the expulsion is so genteel at first that you might not notice.
Wired
5
I never beheld such sweetness and innocence joined with such beauty, and withal so genteel.
Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2
6
Oh, I don't mind; only it sounded so genteel.
Pygmalion
7
I was so genteel, and talked so sweet, that he fell to it like a bird.
Fanny's First Play
8
You who are so fine and so genteel!
O. T., A Danish Romance
9
I think one of the main reasons I related to those people was that their ways were so genteel.
Between a heart and a rock place: a memoir
10
They think me so genteel.
Of Human Bondage
11
It was all so genteel.
Life
12
Bin Laden in 'Hell' When it happens, the expulsion is so genteel at first that you might not notice.
Wired
13
They are so genteel, as a rule, but every little while the raciness natural to the West country breaks out.
Penny Plain
14
Did you see the sweet youth that sate on the left and looked so genteel, with his snow-white neck and open shirt-collar?
The Home; Or, Life in Sweden
15
I sighed silently; for it was originally so genteel and of a piece, that I was sorry to have it tumbled by coarse applauses.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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This was accordingly executed, and the count obliged to surrender to savage force what he had in so genteel a manner taken at play.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction
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