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genteelism
noun
(gen-teel-ism)
a word believed by its user to be more polite or less vulgar than a common synonym; also : the use of genteelisms
Words Related to
genteelism
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vulgar
,
invulgar
,
asteism
,
genteelness
,
dedecorous
,
crass
,
fescennine
,
unrude
,
buffoonly
,
cacozelia
,
bowdlerisation
,
supravulgar
,
antiphrasis
,
euphemism
,
vers de societe
,
dysphemia
,
homelily
,
vulgarity
,
ingracious
,
orgulous
,
tushery
,
commonish
,
vernaculous
,
plebeianize
,
gustless
,
paradiastole
,
despiteous
,
set phrase
,
dandiprat
,
colloquial
,
jocoseness
,
expressive style
,
hoiden
,
mannerliness
,
viled
,
wlatsome
,
insulse
,
condescendence
,
altiloquent
,
inurbane
,
rudesby
,
bumbledom
,
inodiate
,
slanginess
,
waggery
,
ugsome
,
laconize
,
ingustable
,
verecund
,
plebeianism
,
drollingly
,
insultment
,
unked
,
uncult
,
unbecomingness
,
churly
,
euphuist
,
jucundity
,
obsoletism
,
unsarcastic
,
unsavoriness
,
figure of speech
,
pauciloquy
,
witzelsucht
,
jocundity
,
vernacularism
,
perissological
,
disreputableness
,
rhetorical device
,
profane
,
gongorism
,
conversationism
,
indign
,
suaviloquent
,
extradictionary
,
jargle
,
smicker
,
gadzookery
,
euphuize
,
cockneyism
,
dulciloquy
,
dislikeful
,
domestical
,
dispiteous
,
thersitical
,
tralation
,
inurbanity
,
lexiphanicism
,
laconism
,
customariness
,
disaffectionate
,
pudic
,
immorigerous
,
epanadiplosis
,
salacity
,
brachyology
,
hottentotism
,
villanize
,
johnsonese
,
malapert
,
genteelism
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