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genteelish

genteelish adjective: somewhat genteel.

Adjective

genteelish (comparative more genteelish, superlative most genteelish)

  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 […] .1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 97

Forms of genteelish

comparativemore genteelish
superlativemost genteelish

Origin of genteelish

From genteel + -ish.

Questions about genteelish

What does genteelish mean?
Genteelish means somewhat genteel.
What part of speech is genteelish?
Genteelish is an adjective.

Words near genteelish in the dictionary

  1. genteel business
  2. genteel lady
  3. genteeler
  4. genteelest
  5. genteelise
  6. genteelish
  7. genteelism
  8. genteelisms
  9. genteelize
  10. genteelized
  11. genteelizes

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