Moby-Dick: Genteel
Genteel
- high-class
- well-bred
- free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior
The word genteel appears in the following sentences from Moby-Dick:
Chapter 1 > Paragraph 13 > Sentence 1:
Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces—though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgments.
Concordance for the word genteel from Moby-Dick.
