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gen·teel (jĕn-tēl')
adj.
  1. Refined in manner; well-bred and polite.
  2. Free from vulgarity or rudeness.
  3. Elegantly stylish: genteel manners and appearance.
    1. Striving to convey a manner or appearance of refinement and respectability. See synonyms at polite.
    2. Marked by affected and somewhat prudish refinement.

[French gentil, from Old French. See gentle.]

genteelly gen·teel'ly adv.
genteelness gen·teel'ness n.

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