gentlemanly

How To Use gentlemanly In A Sentence

• Then I saw how the ladies came alive at his gentlemanly attentions, how flattered they were by them.
• They took it in a very gentlemanly manner and directed me to a top-class agent. Times, Sunday Times
• Whatever the reason, I'll be wishing him well because, in our adversarial, interrogative culture, there's still a place for Parkinson's gentlemanly, self-effacing approach.
• In frame 15 the referee warned Holt for ungentlemanly conduct, in this case swearing.
• The order of gentlemanly parleying and brokery has, therefore, with many apprehensions of calamity, been reluctantly and tardily giving ground before something that is of a visibly underbred order. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
• There seemed something raffish and ungentlemanly about dealing in used cars, at least to the members of the court. TANK OF SERPENTS
• A broadcaster of gentlemanly calm and courtesy, he was unsympathetic to the more confrontational style which increasingly became the norm. Times, Sunday Times
• He had to be a gentleman: clubbable, competent, courteous and fair; but he had also to be not so gentlemanly as to be lazy or independent of his master.
• It was a dodgy existence, sharing more with high-risk adventure sports than gentlemanly pursuits.
• ‘There was something ungentlemanly about a man who was so obviously on the make,’ says Ingrams.