What is "genteelly"

Usage examples of "genteelly".

These people were strange, genteelly so, but I definitely did not wish to partake of tea cakes with them.

I would have joined him in the cup that cheers, but I could hardly sit there swigging down spirits while he genteelly sipped tea.

Here in Bingtown, she was genteelly referred to as an indentured servant.

Al Gore goes around loutishly declaring himself the popular-vote champion, while Bush genteelly refrains from any such boasts.

Miss Trotwood was good enough to mention that she had a nephew who was her peculiar care, and for whom she was seeking to provide genteelly in life.