courteously

Adverb

courteously (comparative more courteously, superlative most courteously)

1. In a courteous manner; with obliging civility or condescension; politely.
   • His Third Query is a Frank Proposal, without any more ado, of taking all the Church Lands into the Crown; and Courteously he offers the Poor Cavaliers a Snip in the Booty1680, Roger L'Estrange, The Free-Born Subject, Or, the Englishmans Birthright Asserted Against All Tyrannical Vsvrpations Either in Church or State
   • "Perhaps they eat too much." He said it with the air of one courteously offering a helpful suggestion.1926, Christopher Darlington Morley, Thunder on the Left