Sentence example with the word 'gentility'

gentility

ancestry, becomingness, breeding, decency, elegance, fittingness, gentlemanliness, happiness, nobility, properness, refinement, society, urbanity

Definition n. elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression

Last update: September 10, 2015


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Bishop Heber described them as follows: - "The country is burdened with a crowd of lazy, profligate, self-called sawars (cavaliers), who, though many of them are not worth a rupee, conceive it derogatory to their gentility and Pathan blood to apply themselves to any honest industry, and obtain for the most part a precarious livelihood by sponging on the industrious tradesmen and farmers, on whom they levy a sort of blackmail, or as hangers-on to the wealthy and noble families yet remaining in the province.   [Please select]

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By that road, his progress to the goal of gentility would be smooth and simple.   [Please select]

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"In Italy wearing a hat is a sign of gentility."   [Please select]

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Frank was destined that same evening to see the contrast between true and false gentility.   [Please select]

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Far-reaching was the line of the gentility, to whose flanks clung the rabble of trade.   [Please select]

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'I had no idea that high gentility numbered chivalry among its virtues.'   [Please select]

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The Knight girls could make faces too, for all their gentility.   [Please select]

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Gentility pays dividends of the highest order, being, as it is, a badge of character.   [Please select]

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"Gentility is, after all, less a habit than an instinct."   [Please select]

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It played the "hat trick" with the gentility of modern manners.   [Please select]

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Battlefields had tested their valor, and drawing-rooms had proved their gentility.   [Please select]

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