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 Translation for 'genteel' from English to Icelandic
ADJ   genteel | more genteel | most genteel
SYNO civilised | civilized | cultivated | ...
göfugur {adj}genteel
fágaður {adj}genteel
virðulegur {adj}genteel
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Translation for 'genteel' from English to Icelandic

genteel
göfugur {adj}

fágaður {adj}

virðulegur {adj}
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Usage Examples English
  • Ellen Kendall: Joel's kind, genteel aunt who sends him from New Orleans to live with his father.
  • A restaurant in the Beyoğlu district is named Zariphis (Zarifi), both as a play on the word "zarif" ("genteel") and with reference to Yorgo Zarifi.
  • It was genteel in expressive impact without being genteel in social conformity.
  • She was noted as a character actress who played genteel heroines in films such as "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (1917).
  • "Quality Street" is a comedy in four acts by J. M. Barrie, written before his more famous work "Peter Pan". The story is about two sisters who start a school "for genteel children".

  • The lead character was played by British film actor Googie Withers who played the well-groomed, genteel governor Faye Boswell and episodes revolved around her attempts to liberalise the prison regime while managing her personal life at home.
  • Though raised in genteel circumstances, Joan considered herself plucky and resourceful enough in her adult years to admirably adapt and live through some harsh periods of deprivation and patches of genuine calamity in Iraq.
  • The "Sanctus" opens slowly, but builds to a rather ominous forte on the text "Pleni sunt coeli" before moving to a brief, more genteel "Hosanna in Excelsis".
  • He was known for his crooning high baritone voice and often portrayed genteel antagonists.
  • Louise Ayer Hatheway (1876-1955) was a philanthropist, heiress and "genteel farmer" who founded Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

  • Silverwells is associated with the 1860s development of the higher ground at Kangaroo Point as a genteel address.
  • He grew up in a genteel middle-class environment. He was influenced by the poetic piety of his mother and the prophetic spirit of Isaac da Costa.
  • Poet James L. McMichael describes Holmby Park as "triangular, genteel" in his 1994 poem "Each in a Place Apart".
  • Real Dido would also be in charge of some chores normal for genteel woman but many doubt that Lady Elizabeth did any of these task. As remarked by Thomas Hutchinson from his visit to Kenwood.
  • He grew up on the East Kent coast, primarily in Deal, within a family fractious with "parental separation, secret illegitimacy, alcoholism and genteel poverty".

  • Simon Jenkins's reference to "genteel poverty" is only half the truth.
  • Also typical is the use of [...] 'the well-born lord/lady', for students at universities, traditionally children of the genteel bourgeoisie.
  • Wall, who at [...] tall, was described as a man of "genteel appearance", left several children by his wife Frances, fifth daughter of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth.
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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