genteel in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

genteel in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for genteel in the English»Italian Dictionary

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All these things are essential for understanding what the genteel tradition is and why it is a tragedy.
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It has many fine examples of colonial and federation architecture and was considered to be a genteel area.
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Goods traffic continued to be handled at the original station, the new one retaining a more genteel atmosphere with just passengers, their horse and carriages.
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Living in genteel poverty was more honest than amassing a nest egg and a house in the suburbs.
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He is a genteel old man, always neatly dressed with good taste.
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By the 18th century the more genteel entertainment of the pleasure gardens had developed.
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A childhood of luxury and privilege gave way to an early womanhood of decreased possibilities and genteel poverty.
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All these characters were from the genteel social classes.
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Despite the prominence of her family in the church, they lived in genteel poverty, their property burdened by unpayable debt.
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Her vocabulary was described by one newspaperman as such that would have given any genteel hostess the vapors.
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