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gentlemanlily

gentlemanlily adverb: in a gentlemanly manner.

Adverb

gentlemanlily (comparative more gentlemanlily, superlative most gentlemanlily)

  1. (rare) In 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...
    • 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

Synonyms of gentlemanlily

Forms of gentlemanlily

comparativemore gentlemanlily
superlativemost gentlemanlily

Origin of gentlemanlily

From gentlemanly + -ly.

Questions about gentlemanlily

What does gentlemanlily mean?
Gentlemanlily means in a gentlemanly manner.
What part of speech is gentlemanlily?
Gentlemanlily is an adverb.

Words near gentlemanlily in the dictionary

  1. gentlemanlier
  2. gentlemanliest
  3. gentlemanlike
  4. gentlemanlikely
  5. gentlemanlikeness
  6. gentlemanlily
  7. gentlemanliness
  8. gentlemanly
  9. gentlemans
  10. gentlemanship
  11. gentlemen

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