Definitions for gentility

gentility gen·til·i·ty

Spelling: [jen-til-i-tee]
IPA: /dʒɛnˈtɪl ɪ ti/

Gentility is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in gentility (egiilntty).

Definitions for gentility

noun

  1. good breeding or refinement.
  2. affected or pretentious politeness or elegance.
  3. the status of belonging to polite society.
  4. members of polite society collectively.

Origin of gentility

1300-50; Middle English Old French gentilite Latin gentīlitāt- (stem of gentīlitās), equivalent to gentīl(is) (see gentle) + -itāt- -ity

Examples for gentility

What, in the name of gentility, can you know of fashionable life?

I knew that the gentility of the knock had taken both her and her mother aback.

To me, this was a precious document; it was a patent of gentility at once.

I have seen in my own family that horrible mixture, gentility and Poverty.

By that road, his progress to the goal of gentility would be smooth and simple.

Now, I must say that is the very tip-top of gentility and politeness.

Today: Germans on socialism, Russians on gentility, and gay men on the British royals.

The boy, Leonard Bast, stood at the extreme verge of gentility.

She was shabbily dressed, with a trace of gentility in clothes and manner.

Packaging these rebuffs with gentility and kindness may or may not succeed.

Word Value for gentility
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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