Antonyms for gentility

Grammar : Noun

Spell : jen-til-i-tee

Phonetic Transcription : dʒɛnˈtɪl ɪ ti

Definition of gentility

Origin : mid-14c., "gentle birth," from Old French gentilité (14c.) or directly from Latin gentilitatem (nominative gentilitas) "relationship in the same family or clan," from gentilis (see gentle). Meaning "state of being gentile" is from 1520s.

noun sophistication, cultivation

Example sentences :

What, in the name of gentility, can you know of fashionable life?
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various

The boy, Leonard Bast, stood at the extreme verge of gentility.
Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster

By that road, his progress to the goal of gentility would be smooth and simple.
Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic

To me, this was a precious document; it was a patent of gentility at once.
Extract from : « Confessions Of Con Cregan » by Charles James Lever

I knew that the gentility of the knock had taken both her and her mother aback.
Extract from : « A Window in Thrums » by J. M. Barrie

Now, I must say that is the very tip-top of gentility and politeness.
Extract from : « Strife and Peace » by Fredrika Bremer

I have seen in my own family that horrible mixture, Gentility and Poverty.
Extract from : « Put Yourself in His Place » by Charles Reade

She was shabbily dressed, with a trace of gentility in clothes and manner.
Extract from : « Land of the Burnt Thigh » by Edith Eudora Kohl

What they did enjoy was not the flowers themselves but their association with gentility.
Extract from : « Progress and History » by Various

Now, it was quiet and gentility, easy-living and refinement.
Extract from : « In Her Own Right » by John Reed Scott

Synonyms for gentility

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