genteelish

English

Etymology

From genteel +‎ -ish.

Adjective

genteelish (comparative more genteelish, superlative most genteelish)

1. Somewhat genteel.
   • 1790, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 97:

     Not to detail the history minutely, there was a pretty numerous company, two genteelish ladies and their husbands, one a clergyman of buckish cast […] .

Anagrams

• gehlenites