gent

Usage

• genteel

  A genteel person is well-mannered, has good taste, and is very polite in social situations; a genteel person is often from an upper-class background.

• gentry

  The gentry are the elite or upper-class members of a society.

• gingerly

  To handle an object gingerly is to be careful and cautious with it.

• gent

  informal abbreviation of `gentleman'

• gentility

  elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression

• gentleman

  a man of refinement

• gentlewoman

  a woman of refinement

• jaunty

  marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners