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Genteel poverty is a
state of
poverty marked by one's
connection or
affectation towards a
higher ("
genteel")
social class.
Those in
genteel poverty are...
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Strictly Genteel is a
compilation album by
Frank Zappa. It
focuses on Zappa's "classical" and "serious" compositions, and as such is
something of a companion...
- (from Old
French genterie, from
gentil 'high-born, noble') are "well-born,
genteel and well-bred people" of high
social class,
especially in the past. Gentry...
- A
Complete Collection of
genteel and
ingenious Conversation,
according to the most
polite mode and
method now used at Court, and in the best Companies...
- A
Shabby Genteel Story is an
early and
unfinished novel by
William Makepeace Thackeray. It was
first printed among other stories and
sketches in his collection...
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fiction of that time, much of it in the
style of "high-flown romance" and "
genteel realism",
needed a new
approach to
describe the
urban social, political...
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confidence man to be coined.
Operating in New York City in the late 1840s, a
genteelly dressed Thompson would approach an upper-class mark,
pretending they knew...
- Lisa
theory Some
researchers argue that it was
common at this time for
genteel women to
pluck these hairs, as they were
considered unsightly. Leonardo...
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Bengali using simplified inflections. সাধুভাষা Sadhubhasha, a
formal and
genteel form of Bengali. In 1948, the
government of ****stan
tried to
impose Urdu...
- election.
Eastwood stated that he
wishes that
Trump would act "in a more
genteel way,
without tweeting and
calling people names. I
would personally like...
