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1 she has a very genteel way of holding her glass
Общая лексика: она держит рюмку, отставив мизинецУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > she has a very genteel way of holding her glass
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2 genteel
1. [dʒenʹti:l] уст. = gentleman 2. [dʒenʹti:l] a1. прост., уст. благородный, благовоспитанный; светский; вежливый2. ирон. нарочито вежливый, выставляющий напоказ свою благовоспитанность; манерный, жеманный; мещански-претенциозныйshe has a very genteel way of holding her glass - она держит рюмку, отставив мизинец
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3 genteel
1. a прост. уст. благородный, благовоспитанный; светский; вежливый2. a ирон. нарочито вежливый, выставляющий напоказ свою благовоспитанность; манерный, жеманный; мещански-претенциозныйshe has a very genteel way of holding her glass — она держит рюмку, отставив мизинец
Синонимический ряд:1. affected (adj.) affected; la-di-da; mincing; pretentious; stilted; too-too2. cosmopolitan (adj.) cosmopolitan; elegant; fashionable; sophisticated; stylish3. cultured (adj.) aristocratic; artificial; cultivated; cultured; distingue; formal; patrician; polished; pompous; refined; respectable; urbane4. excessively polite (adj.) civil; conventional; courteous; excessively polite; haughty; mannerly; polite; well-behaved; well-bred; well-mannered5. prim (adj.) bluenosed; missish; old-maidish; precise; prig; priggish; prim; prissy; proper; prudish; puritanical; straitlaced; stuffy; tight-laced; VictorianАнтонимический ряд:bourgeois; dowdy; modest; rude -
4 genteel
dʒenˈti:l прил.;
ирон.
1) благородный;
благовоспитанный;
светский Syn: urbane, noble, generous, courteous, polite, obliging
2) а) модный б) изящный, элегантный, изысканный, тонкий Syn: stylish, sumptuous
3) жеманный, претенциозный, манерный( устаревшее) джентельмен (просторечие) (устаревшее) благородный, благовоспитанный;
светский;
вежливый - * poverty благородная нищета( ироничное) нарочито вежливый, выставляющий напоказ свою благовоспитанность;
манерный, жеманный;
мещански-претенциозный - she has a very * way of holding her glass она держит рюмку, отставив мизинец genteel ирон. благородный;
благовоспитанный;
светский ~ ирон. модный, изящный, элегантный;
жеманный
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