Anglais example sentences with "genteel"

He was a man of excellent birth and education, who had squandered a fortune upon the turf, and who lived now by doing a little quiet and genteel book-making in the sporting clubs of London.
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Years of living an immigrant's life in North America has corrupted her once genteel Filipina demeanour.
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Many of you like my mother because she is neotenic and has black hair and olive skin tinged with light yellow. She is duplicitous about her Baptist Protestant beliefs, and she does try to understand Buddhism, nevertheless. Born Roman Catholic in the Philippines, she was a genteel woman when she was younger, but in later years in North America, she has become more melancholy and harsh. In later years, she still finds it difficult to control her jealousy and anger.
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Oh, how genteel and gallant men are when they want something from a poor woman!
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