Przykłady użycia

Przykłady dopasowywane są do haseł w zautomatyzowany sposób - nie gwarantujemy ich poprawności.

Questions from the audience at events throw up a different sort of challenge: how to answer a question from a child who is so nervous they haven't noticed the child before them asked exactly the same one; how to say gently, to a distressed 7-year-old, that she'll talk to them afterwards about their parents' breakup; how to deflect, increasingly (and to her genteel dismay), questions about money: how much she earns, what her rings are worth.

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Publishers started producing reading guides to help proceedings along; people either swotted furiously for them or conceded that they were largely a genteel cover for a good old-fashioned knees-up; and suddenly they were both a mainstay of a certain kind of British life and an invaluable asset to the precarious business of selling books.

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"Tennis hasn't really moved on from its roots as a genteel middle-class sport," says Henderson.

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Laura Marling was a genteel start to the festival, turning a field in Suffolk into Laurel Canyon circa 1970 with her softly strummed ballads-with-bite.

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To be sure. He is not so genteel as a real gentleman.
Na pewno nie jest tak dystyngowany jak prawdziwy dżentelmen.

Tea really is a very genteel form of trade, Miss Matty.
Herbata jest bardzo wytworną formą handlu, panno Matty.

Your friend appears to be quite a genteel pretty sort of girl, Mrs Collins.
Pani przyjaciółka wydaje się dobrze wychowana i ładna, pani Collins.

I'm an impeccably genteel, unmarried lady, Mother.
Jestem przykładną, niezamężną damą Matko.