When he was 11, Alexander's father died, leaving the family in genteel poverty.

Now, they are back in the same old situation of genteel poverty.

I can't help the fact that my husband makes a pile of dough while you live in genteel poverty.

Kept in Chicago by an accident, the professor's family sinks into genteel poverty.

That would be the conversation in this house, with genteel poverty its backdrop.

What could be more difficult to bear than genteel poverty!

So Amelia returns to live in genteel poverty with her parents.

She returns to live in genteel poverty with her parents.

Before he was 13 years old, however, gentility had become genteel poverty.

Until he had come west, they had lived together in genteel poverty.