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genteel
Synonyms and Antonyms of genteel
- those bygone days when young women were taught how to drink tea while wearing long gloves and other genteel ways of behaving
- she grew up in genteel old Savannah
- the genteel ladies never mixed with the servants
- prohibited by reason of her genteel birth from marrying the man she loved
- his genteel gesture of holding the door for the ladies
attentive, careful, considerate, nice, solicitous, thoughtful
chivalrous, civilized, courtly, gallant, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, ladylike
ceremonial, ceremonious, red-carpet
couth, formal, smooth, suave, unctuous, urbane
deferential, dutiful, respectful, submissive, yielding
acceptable, appropriate, becoming, befitting, comme il faut, correct, decent, decorous, fit, fitting, good, meet, proper, respectable, right, seemly, suitable
affable, cordial, friendly, genial, hospitable, pleasant, sociable
heedless, inconsiderate, thoughtless
audacious, bold, bold-faced, brash, brassy, disrespectful, impertinent, impudent, insolent, lippy, saucy, shameless
boorish, churlish, clodhopping, clownish, loutish, uncouth, vulgar
casual, informal, unceremonious
improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, uncalled-for, unrespectable, unseemly
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