How to Use gentility in a Sentence

gentility

noun

• Education was considered a mark of gentility.
• But most people who have met him are struck by his charm and gentility.
  — Bob Johnstone, WIRED, 1 Feb. 1994
• That sort of gentility is not unusual for this stage of the campaign.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
• But his natural gentility is tough to dress down.
  — Naveen Kumar, Variety, 10 Apr. 2026
• But this was close to the borderline of gentility.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
• Margaret is the picture of gentility, yet her dagger drips with stony blood.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• But the glory and gentility that had been the Pontchartrain was gone.
  — Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
• But despite that, the atmosphere is one of gentility and calm.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
• Riley knows how to spin a yarn built on faith and trust, that lilts along with the gentility and reserve of her characters.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 June 2020
• In a world of glossy brand catalogs, these illustrations are a breath of fresh air, gentility and wit.
  — Alexander Freeling, Robb Report, 24 Nov. 2021
• Modesty, gentility, and protocol have no place in the apartment grope.
  — Nicholas Pileggi, Curbed, 15 Aug. 2025
• And with that came a professionalism that wasn’t a great match for the show’s air of sportsmanlike gentility.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2019
• Before the yuppie era, a certain staid gentility prevailed.
  — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• The institution made sadists out of people who prided themselves on their gentility.
  — Lydia Moland, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• The neighborhood, once a bastion of black gentility, was beginning its decades-long descent into gangs, drugs, no jobs and bad schools.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2015
• There wasn’t really much in the way of gentility, of course, but the passion and fire of the playing rendered that unnecessary.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2018
• The senatorial gentility of yore has, at times, given way to the rancor and harsh words of the Twitter age.
  — Martine Powers, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2017
• But in an American context, of course, politeness and gentility are racialized as white.
  — Morgan Jerkins, Longreads, 13 Sep. 2019
• Though the Looff carousel remains splendidly vivid, the rest of Slater Park projects a shabby gentility, a drowsy grandeur.
  — Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• Part of what drives him, Kyrgios has said, is to prevail over all the naysayers and critics who view him as the antithesis of the sport’s mythic gentility.
  — New York Times, 6 July 2022
• Smith writes about yardbird intellects, refugees from good taste and urban ease; her characters are shabby-genteel with the gentility knob turned down pretty low.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2020
• America's neighbor to the north is famed for what might be described as a distinctly un-Trumpian politeness and gentility.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 14 Sep. 2022
• Nothing more needs to be said to exhibit the chasm about to open up between two young women who share much in the way of gentility, elegance and accomplishments.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
• Wain, his mother and five sisters solvent, though in circumstances far reduced from their gentility prior to the death of Wain’s father.
  — Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• But his throwback wardrobe was a relic of Southern gentility that set him apart as an observer rather than participant in the follies of his time.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 15 May 2018
• Slowly, poetry moved out of the parlors of overstuffed gentility into the academy.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 2 June 1967
• The walk to the hot springs takes about an hour, during which the gentility of the allées gives way to the ruins of bizarre Soviet buildings of immense proportions.
  — Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2025
• My first meal in Dublin was at the Saddle Room, and, with in its calm and gentility, nothing could have cured my jet lag better with food of such a high caliber.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• The Hindi film industry soon saw a rise in films about violence and gangsters, and Bachchan would go on to star in many films that rejected gentility.
  — Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
• The open secret of workers’ relationship with the gentry, in Eliot, is that their labor makes its gentility possible.
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024