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1 genteel
‹ən'ti:l(acting, talking etc with a very great (often too great) attention to the rules of polite behaviour: She was laughed at for being too genteel.) terte-/fisefin, fornem- genteelnessfin--------fornemadj. \/dʒenˈtiːl\/1) ( spøkefullt) fin, fornem, fisefin, snobbete, standsmessig2) ( gammeldags) fin, fornem, dannet3) comme-il-fautlive in genteel poverty være fattigfornem
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