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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...
-
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
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...
-
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...
- 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 lady's
companion was a
woman of
genteel birth who
lived with a
woman of rank or
wealth as retainer. The term was in use in the
United Kingdom from at...
- 30 May 2024.
Retrieved 25 June 2024. "'Heretic' Review: Hugh
Grant Is
Genteelly Terrifying as a
Creep ****-Bent on
Converting Others to His 'One True...
- 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...
- Plott,
Elaina (August 5, 2020). "Tennessee Republicans, Once
Moderate and
Genteel, Turn
Toxic in the
Trump Era". The New York Times.
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