Definitions
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- adjective Somewhat genteel.
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- adjective Somewhat
genteel .
Etymologies
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genteel + -ish
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Examples
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If he requested one of his friends to send him anything from town, it was usually some little thing, such as a "genteelish toothpick case," a handsome stock-buckle, a new hat -- "not a round slouch, which I abhor, but a smart well-cocked fashionable affair" -- or a cuckoo-clock.
The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914
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Miss Hook is a well-behaved, genteelish woman; Mrs. Drew well behaved, without being at all genteel.
Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796
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