What is "gentlemanly"

Usage examples of "gentlemanly".

His victory at the North American Championship at Fairbanks began a fierce but gentlemanly rivalry with perennial champion and Alaskan Native George Attla.

Apparently Dominick was no better than any other man, despite his gentlemanly veneer.

He was only thirty-six years of age, but he was followed to his grave by the regrets of the public, and more particularly of all the patricians amongst whom he was held as above his profession, not less on account of his gentlemanly behaviour than on account of his extensive knowledge in mechanics.

I should have recorded no more than the weather, the helleborus foetidus when we stopped to mend a trace, and the handsomely expressed gentlemanly gratitude of the men, the wholly uneducated men, to whom we gave the horses.

A good-looking young man, with the characteristic Tyrolese long black moustache, dressed in a gentlemanly variant on the costume of the country.

She was a tall and handsome woman, a year older than Winton, with a long, aristocratic face, deep-blue, rather shining eyes, a gentlemanly manner, warm heart, and one of those indescribable, not unmelodious drawls that one connects with an unshakable sense of privilege.

When the game was over, we repaired to the coffee-room, where an officer of gentlemanly appearance, staring at me, began to smile, but not in an offensive manner.

What worried Jack were the occasional tales of the depredations of bushrangers, some of them almost gentlemanly in their concern for the welfare of ladies, others hard-bitten criminals escaped from the high security penitentiary at Port Arthur and Eaglehawk Neck in the south east.

He was a dancer, but very superior to his fellows, and fit for the best company polite, witty, intelligent, and a libertine in a gentlemanly way.

The battle between handicappers and trainers is none the less fierce for being conducted in gentlemanly and largely uncomplaining reticence, and perhaps tonight you will capture a whiff of that unrelenting struggle.

Old Mr. Turveydrop is a very gentlemanly man indeed--very gentlemanly.

Next morning a handsome and gentlemanly man came with a letter of introduction from Therese, who told me that he would be useful in case I wanted any assistance in business.

Corey, however she viewed it, could not allow herself to blench before the son whom she had taught that to want magnanimity was to be less than gentlemanly.

He had been so charmingly distressed, his luggage which Fenton had carried in was so gentlemanly, and the chaise and its appointments were so luxurious, that neither of them thought to question what he was saying--such a rich and fine gentleman as he undoubtedly was.

They misted her in the most exquisite perfume-one whiff of it, if you were a man, a normal man, there's a fever in your blood only one act can satisfy, they passed out copies of the examining physician's report, she was clean of all disease venereal or otherwise, she was a virgin, no doubt of that though tripping in her high heels and grinning and blushing peering through her fingers at her suitors she sometimes gave the wrong impression, poor Babygirl: those lush crimson lips of such fleshy contours they suggested, even to the most gentlemanly and austere among us, the fleshy vaginal labia.