Definition of "genteelness" [gen•teel•ness]

• The quality of being genteel. (noun)

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• "She's got her mother's good looks and nice manners and -- and kind of genteelness, you understand, and with 'em she's got her dad's sense and capableness."
• "Removing the Talmudic moral complexity and parsing, the Woody Allen angst, the liberal genteelness and conservative embarrassment from the equation, what we really want is to scalp Nazis, burn Nazis, torture Nazis, murder Nazis, brand Nazis like cattlemen brand cows (or God brands Cain) with their very own swastikas, and brutally bash their heads in with baseball bats."
• "I think that he -- he represents a genteelness in a man that I don't get a chance to see very often, he and his wife both."