Nothing cramped, nothing showy, nothing dim, grim, nor shabby-genteel enters into its proportions.

Weel, among the customers there was ane that I had got very intimate wi'as genteel and decent a looking man as ye could see; indeed I took him to be a particular serious and honest man.

dowdy; slovenly &c (dirty) 653; ungenteel, shabby genteel; low, common, hoi polloi