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genteelish, a.|dʒɛnˈtiːlɪʃ| [f. genteel a. + -ish.] Somewhat genteel.
1750J. Tucker Ess. Trade (ed. 2) 130 If a young Woman has a genteelish Education, and a small Fortune, she stands upon the Brink of Destruction. 1814Sporting Mag. XLIV. 48 In person genteelish—behaviour quite easy. 1825Lockhart in Scott Fam. Lett. (1894) II. 341 A large assemblage of vulgar women and men,—little Quillinan, ‘the heavy dragoon’, the only genteelish figure. |