bettersome

comparative more bettersome · superlative most bettersome

1. Characterised or marked by betterness; finer; superior; improved.

   Altogether I have a bettersome feeling.

   1902, Alexander Grant, Physician and Friend

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   "[…] but my friends, there's a speretil and bettersome idee: —one penny is the law, and tother's the gospel."

   1855, Baynard Rush Hall, The New Purchase

   We then paced up and down the High-street, viewing the shops becoming gradually shutterless—the milkman paying his early call—and pretty, rosy-cheeked country lasses, with their pails and brooms, tidying up the doorways of the more bettersome abodes; […]

   1857, Matthias Cathrow Turner, A saunter through Surrey, page 169

   Land, and a bettersome sort of room with a bed in it on the right.

   1859, James Hamilton, Memoirs of the Life of James Wilson, page 245