betterishadj.

1807 Weekly Entertainer 4 May 350 Though this be but a small town, yet, your honour, there be many of your betterish sort of people live here.

1857 Sat. Rev. 30 May 504/1 Such people..form so very large a proportion of the betterish and more respectable classes, that it requires a keen perception of the ludicrous..to give distinction to the types taken from their ranks by the novelist.

1904 A. D. L. Woman's Endurance 22 Hysterical girl very bad; fear she won't pull through; others betterish; except the fever one; very weak.

1949 E. Wilson Let. 18 Apr. in Stories, Ess., & Lett. (1987) 151 The last two days here have been betterish, and Wallace has now insisted on doing without a night nurse.

2012 H. Bingham Talking to Dead xlvii. 323 For two years, you were unfortunate enough to suffer from the aforementioned syndrome... Then you got better. Or betterish.