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genteelish

adj

Etymology

From genteel + -ish.

  1. derived from gentilis
  2. borrowed from gentil
  3. suffixed as genteelish — “genteel + ish”

Definitions

  1. Somewhat genteel.

    • Not to detail the history minutely, there was a pretty numerous company, two genteelish ladies and their husbands, one a clergyman of buckish cast […] .

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA