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Definition of Gentlemanlike
1. Adjective. Befitting a man of good breeding. "Gentlemanly behavior"
Definition of Gentlemanlike
1. a. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well-behaved; courteous; polite.
Definition of Gentlemanlike
1. Adjective. Like a gentleman; courteous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gentlemanlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gentlemanlike
Literary usage of Gentlemanlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"... and frittered away by official duties and chance occupations, that you have
not leisure to play Master Stephen, and be melancholy and gentlemanlike. ..."
2. Manual of Political Ethics: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Colleges and by Francis Lieber, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1876)
"Political Importance of gentlemanlike Tone.— Publishing private Letters.—Dangers
of Newspaper Flippancy.—The Political Position of the Clergyman. ..."
3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1853)
"His papers are distinguished by an ease and gentlemanlike turn of expression, by
a delicate and polished irony, by a strain of manly, honourable, ..."
4. The Journals of Washington Irving (hitherto Unpublished) by Washington Irving (1919)
"Called on Livius — read me a very conceited, un- gentlemanlike letter from Planche
about "Frei- schiitz" — wrote letter to Miller in his behalf. ..."
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