GENTEEL

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Traducere în limba română

genteel adjectiv

1. (înv.) politicos, gentil, amabil, binevoitor.

2. (înv., peior.) nobil, bine crescut, educat, manierat, cu maniere alese.

3. (peior.) de bun gust, sclivisit, elegant, pus la punct, aranjat, bine îmbrăcat.

4. monden, lumesc.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It occurred to me several times that we should have got on better, if we had not been quite so genteel.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I noticed, by the by, that although Mr. Micawber was just as much confused as ever about my age and standing, he always remembered, as a genteel thing, that I was a pupil of Doctor Strong's.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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