How to Use gentility in a Sentence

gentility

noun

• Education was considered a mark of gentility.
• But most people who have met him are struck by his charm and gentility.
  — Bob Johnstone, WIRED, 1 Feb. 1994
• Riley knows how to spin a yarn built on faith and trust, that lilts along with the gentility and reserve of her characters.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 June 2020
• That sort of gentility is not unusual for this stage of the campaign.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
• Though the Looff carousel remains splendidly vivid, the rest of Slater Park projects a shabby gentility, a drowsy grandeur.
  — Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• But despite that, the atmosphere is one of gentility and calm.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
• My first meal in Dublin was at the Saddle Room, and, with in its calm and gentility, nothing could have cured my jet lag better with food of such a high caliber.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• Margaret is the picture of gentility, yet her dagger drips with stony blood.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 28 May 2021
• The senatorial gentility of yore has, at times, given way to the rancor and harsh words of the Twitter age.
  — Martine Powers, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2017
• Part of what drives him, Kyrgios has said, is to prevail over all the naysayers and critics who view him as the antithesis of the sport’s mythic gentility.
  — New York Times, 6 July 2022
• In a world of glossy brand catalogs, these illustrations are a breath of fresh air, gentility and wit.
  — Alexander Freeling, Robb Report, 24 Nov. 2021
• There wasn’t really much in the way of gentility, of course, but the passion and fire of the playing rendered that unnecessary.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2018
• And with that came a professionalism that wasn’t a great match for the show’s air of sportsmanlike gentility.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2019
• In that spirit of gentility, Beboe’s wares could pass for the latest French fragrance on sale at Bergdorf Goodman.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
• There was already that happening during the Obama years — not so much under George W. Bush, who now seems like some kind of paragon of old-world gentility.
  — Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2021
• For all his gentility, Mr. Freed could be acid in his observations.
  — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
• The neighborhood, once a bastion of black gentility, was beginning its decades-long descent into gangs, drugs, no jobs and bad schools.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2015
• Elsewhere, in the walled-off grounds and home of a wealthy developer, a wedding is taking place, and the guests arrive bearing envelopes of cash and the gentility of those protected by their wealth.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2021
• This idyll was founded on an illusion of white gentility.
  — Michael Lapointe, The New Yorker, 20 May 2021
• Wain, his mother and five sisters solvent, though in circumstances far reduced from their gentility prior to the death of Wain’s father.
  — Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2021
• But this veneer of gentility has always masked ugly truths.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2020
• At 10 in the morning, the teeming fluorescent atmosphere brought to mind an OTB, minus the gentility.
  — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 1 Nov. 2012
• But his throwback wardrobe was a relic of Southern gentility that set him apart as an observer rather than participant in the follies of his time.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 15 May 2018
• America's neighbor to the north is famed for what might be described as a distinctly un-Trumpian politeness and gentility.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 14 Sep. 2022
• The contrasts between the first Mrs. de Winter and the second are emphasized throughout: the second, gentle, fair, and meek; the first, dark-haired and dramatic, with a cold gentility that endeared her to Danvers over the years.
  — Rachel Krause, refinery29.com, 21 Oct. 2020
• Yet, thanks to Cloud, who brought gentleness and gentility to the role, the character could never be easily written off, or out, as a gangland plot device.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• Danforth, who teaches English at Rhode Island College, has a perfect ear for both eras: the strict gentility of 1902 and the rapid-fire patter of today’s content creators.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
• Born and raised in North Carolina, Lynch still projects the steely gentility that Norling identified decades earlier.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• But in an American context, of course, politeness and gentility are racialized as white.
  — Morgan Jerkins, Longreads, 13 Sep. 2019
• Smith writes about yardbird intellects, refugees from good taste and urban ease; her characters are shabby-genteel with the gentility knob turned down pretty low.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 8 Oct 2024