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shabby-genteel

shabby-genteel adjective: keeping up or affecting an appearance of gentility, though actually shabby.

Adjective

shabby-genteel (comparative more shabby-genteel, superlative most shabby-genteel)

  1. Keeping up or affecting an appearance of gentility, though actually shabby.

Forms of shabby-genteel

comparativemore shabby-genteel
superlativemost shabby-genteel

Questions about shabby-genteel

What does shabby-genteel mean?
Shabby-genteel means keeping up or affecting an appearance of gentility, though actually shabby.
What part of speech is shabby-genteel?
Shabby-genteel is an adjective.

Words near shabby-genteel in the dictionary

  1. shabbos goys
  2. shabboses
  3. shabbosim
  4. shabby
  5. shabby chic
  6. shabby-genteel
  7. shabbyish
  8. shabda
  9. shabdas
  10. shabeen
  11. shabeens

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