Meaning of gentlepersonly | Babel Free

Definitions

Having the manners or behavior of a gentleperson; having social graces; polite.

Examples

“Possibly there have never been, in one ampitheater,^([sic]) three gladiators more civilized in style, more moderate in instinct, more gentlepersonly in mood, than Babbidge, Grasso and Killian.”

“I think that the “energy crisis” (or whatever it really is) requires that we all think positively in a gentlepersonly way — not like jungle residents, which the influential Mr. Gorin apparently believes us to be.”

“But even on such a gentlepersonly newspaper as this, a sporting offer to scribble under the name of Jeremiah Jenkins (last heard of Fiji) without benefit of tax produces shock, incredulity and finally pain.”

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