| 单词 | shabby-gentility |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshabby-gentility shabby-gentility n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affectation of refinement airs and graces1697 fine-ladyism1799 gentility1821 shabby-gentility1829 gentishness1847 genteelism1849 silver-spoonism1859 posh1915 refainment1933 the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [noun] > attempt to maintain shabby-gentility1829 1829 T. Carlyle German Playwrights in Foreign Rev. Jan. 115 Old threadbare material, scoured up into a state of shabby-gentility. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 101 This compound of the two—this shabby-gentility. 1898 G. B. Shaw Plays Pleasant & Unpleasant II. 156 The shifts of impecunious shabby-gentility. < as lemmas |
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