| 单词 | shabby-genteel |
| 释义 | shabby-genteel in British Englishadjective preserving or aspiring to the forms and manners of gentility despite appearing shabby shabby-genteel in American English (ˈʃæbidʒɛnˈtil) adjective shabby but genteel in trying to keep up appearances shabby-genteel in American English (ˈʃæbidʒenˈtil) adjective trying to maintain dignity and self-respect despite shabbiness Derived forms shabby-gentility (ˈʃæbidʒenˈtɪlɪti) noun Word origin [1745–55]This word is first recorded in the period 1745–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: generalize, nickel, personification, recapture, symmetrical |
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