squirish
squirish
(ˈskwaɪərɪʃ)adj
(Sociology) literary like or appropriate to a squire
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I'd expected to find nothing but remittance men and exotic women with lurid pasts; instead, everyone's veddy, veddy country squirish and circumspect.
Maybe I forgot on purpose, since he was for me--though perhaps only for me--in those essays a bit too squirish, too clever, and immediately I smelled in him a dandy or a teacher's pet, the kind who have plagued me my entire life
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