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ss of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.

Somewhat genteel.

In a genteel manner.

The quality of being genteel.

Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.

ing, breeding from a male and female of different lineage. -- Good breeding, politeness; genteel deportment.

esire; to prefer. [Colloq.] The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment. Goldsmith. To choose sides. See under Side.

sire or fancy; a crotchet. It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his Jean dressed genteelly. Prof. Wilson.

Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.

Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society. Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak.

To affect, or bring to a certain state, by flux. He might fashionably and genteelly . . . have been dueled or fluxed into another world. South.

The class in society who are, or are expected to be, genteel; the gentry. [R.] Sir J. Davies.

To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble. [Obs.] Shak.

logy; employing new words; of the nature of, or containing, new words or new doctrines. A genteel neological dictionary. Chesterfield.

; dashing. [Obs.] "Now, my spruce companions." Shak. He is so spruce that he can never be genteel. Tatler.