gentlemanlily

comparative more gentlemanlily · superlative most gentlemanlily

1. rareIn a gentlemanly manner.

   He put it very gentlemanlily and with restraint.

   1905–1924, Joseph Conrad, “Appendix B: The Old Story”, in Jeremy Hawthorn, editor, The Inheritors and The Nature of a Crime (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad), Cambridge University Press, published 2022, →ISBN, page 293

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   So I got cigarettes & the Papers & had a nice talk with Mr French who was so well & gentlemanlily dressed!

   1934–5, John Cowper Powys, The Dorset Year: The Diary of John Cowper Powys, June 1934-July 1935, The Powys Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 178

   And what was worse, the other man had made his point so subtly, even gentlemanlily, without a change of tone or a revealing expression;

   2004 spring, L. A. Nemrow, “John Rupert”, in Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, volume 6, number 2, pages 163–170

   Synonyms: gentlemanlikely, gentlemanly