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Example sentences for "genteelest"

Lexicographically close words:
gensdarmes; gent; gente; genteel; genteeler; genteelly; genteely; gentem; gentes; genti
  1. Milk has become the breakfast of many of the wealthiest and genteelest families here.

  2. Some of the best and genteelest houses rent for twenty pounds a year.

  3. With the Bride all in white, and your body in blue, Did you walk up the aisle--the genteelest of men?

  4. Bob Irons, who travels in linen, on our circuit, told me that he had made some slap-up acquaintances among the genteelest people at Paris, nothing but by offering them Sham.

  5. The genteelest characters are often the most immoral.

  6. He said it was the genteelest profession in the world, and must on no account be confounded with the profession of a solicitor: being quite another sort of thing, infinitely more exclusive, less mechanical, and more profitable.

  7. Without it, Valour would degenerate into Brutality, Learning into Pedantry, and the genteelest Demeanour into Affectation.

  8. Garrick," says Mrs. Delaney, "is the genteelest dancer I ever saw.

  9. Flavia, such is her name in the Tatler, "is ever well drest, and always the genteelest woman you meet; her clothes are so exactly fitted that they appear part of her person.

  10. For he spake in the sweetest modulation--and took down his hat with the genteelest movement of limbs, that ever affliction harmonized and attuned together.

  11. Tom Hervey, who died t'other day, though a vicious man, was one of the genteelest men that ever lived.

  12. She commenced by singling out such families as at various times had been her genteelest lodgers--now lodging elsewhere.

  13. But I think myself bound to relate a circumstance which shews him and his nation in the genteelest light.

  14. I am sorry that there is no good dancing-master at Rome, to form your exterior air and carriage; which, I doubt, are not yet the genteelest in the world.

  15. Such stuff is not worth repeating: no, not when uttered by people in the very genteelest of company; as for the amorous dialogue of a carpenter and an ex-barmaid, it is worse still.

  16. But our genteelest folks don't alway do the genteelest things, arter all.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "genteelest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.