genteelish

== English == === Etymology === From genteel +‎ -ish. === Adjective === genteelish (comparative more genteelish, superlative most genteelish) 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