genteel
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An actor renowned for his "hard man" image and London gangster roles looked at home filming on the more genteel streets of a south Wales market town.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
With elegant symmetry and a cool, genteel prose style, Ms. Li tracks these parallel stories, exploring the duo’s worldly educations and the ruthless sacrifices to love and friendship they make in pursuit of their ambitions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
A century on, people’s perception of nonrhoticity changed again, as Irish and Italian immigrants in the American Northeast began to adopt local speech patterns, giving it a less genteel association.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
This wasn’t “an argument between genteel parties in Congress,” William Hogeland writes in his history, The Whiskey Rebellion, “but…a guerrilla war on the country’s ragged margin, our first war for the American soul.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
Rab went into the tavern, and when he came back he had permission to take out the landlady’s genteel nag.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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