, A gentleman, according to Webster, is a
genteel
man—well-bred, refined. It is
indecent
, offensive to delicacy, and extremely unfit for human ears. It is
foolish
. "Want of decency is want of sense." It is
abusive
—to the mind which conceives the oath, to the tongue which utters it, and to the person at whom it is aimed. It is
venomous