Genteel
Both words in one sentence
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Fields, and Miss Tobias are all perfectly kind and genteel ladies...and if you threaten the children Miss Tobias is governess to, they'll turn themselves into owls and you into mice.
- This species is a kind of genteel tract on a large scale, intended as a sort of medicinal sweetmeat for Low Church young ladies; an Evangelical substitute for the fashionable novel, as the May Meetings are a substitute for the Opera.
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Kind of an overarching trope in Genteel Interbellum Setting mysteries, especially those by Christie herself, wherein doctors are very frequently murderers.
Source: Morally Ambiguous Doctorate
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