genteelish

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adjective

Somewhat genteel.

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Meanings

adjectivegenteelish (comparative more genteelish, superlative most 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

Origin

From genteel + -ish.

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APA

genteelish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genteelish

MLA

“genteelish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genteelish. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “genteelish,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genteelish.

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