breeding

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Manners & levels of formality
button-down
buttoned-up
casualization
ceremonious
ceremoniously
formally
genteel
genteelly
genteelness
grace
ground rules
non-U
not the done thingidiom
over-familiar
propriety
pukka
solemnity
valediction
valedictory
without ceremony

Examples of gentility

gentility
These, in turn, are usefully understood as expressing the semantic resonances of ' politeness ', namely, a concern with form, sociability, improvement, worldliness, and gentility.
Her family was one of those whose claim to gentility was supported by limited real property combined with the noninheritable profits of office.%!
Linked to the growth of urban gentility was the transformation of these four towns into centres of consumption.
At times, the dualism is effective, as with the discussion of gentility and its links with the consumption of calicoes and silks.
Her indifference to the question of gentility is surprising, particularly when considering many of the vitriolic contemporary opinions about women's work.
It is true that the complex of values that underlay the new discourse of gentility centered on male behavior, as in the original chivalric ideal.
The language and tone of instructional books about wax flower modelling highlight the gentility and respectability of modelling and looking at wax flowers.
And the role of gentility was therefore going to be central to the fortunes of experimental philosophy.
In response, a number of promoters refigured their prospects in ways that actually reinforced the terms of a familiar gentility.
Ideal for the majority of academics who equate using the passive style with gentility.
There was a literary as well as a social context to prompt reiterated definitions of gentlemanliness, namely, the earlier literary discourse of gentility.
Truthful testimony was thus seen as a ready concomitant to gentility.
Undoubtedly, as this notion of metropolitan gentility evolved so did other ' provincial ' notions of ' middling ' decency and respectability.
But honesty was a characteristic that was routinely attributed to them, and that was reckoned part and parcel of gentility itself.
However, this was hardly a positive vindication of his honour, integrity, or gentility.
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