gentlepersonly

comparative more gentlepersonly · superlative most gentlepersonly

1. Having the manners or behavior of a gentleperson; having social graces; polite.

   Possibly there have never been, in one ampitheater,^([sic]) three gladiators more civilized in style, more moderate in instinct, more gentlepersonly in mood, than Babbidge, Grasso and Killian.

   1974 January 23, Alan H. Olmstead, “Ambitions Clash”, in The Bridgeport Telegram, volume LXXXIII, number 19, Bridgeport, Conn., page twenty-two

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   I think that the “energy crisis” (or whatever it really is) requires that we all think positively in a gentlepersonly way — not like jungle residents, which the influential Mr. Gorin apparently believes us to be.

   1974 February 12, James A.M. Coburn, “Gasoline attitudes”, in The Record, volume 79, number 217, published 18 February 1974, pages B—3

   But even on such a gentlepersonly newspaper as this, a sporting offer to scribble under the name of Jeremiah Jenkins (last heard of Fiji) without benefit of tax produces shock, incredulity and finally pain.

   1975 June 18, Peter Smark, “It’s all very taxing for the mugs”, in The Age, page 2