gentlemanly behavior.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

So in gentlemanly fashion, we help the ladies up, and preferably, lots of ladies, and we call it what it is, a Party on the Roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Endgame] Reference

"Not what one would call a gentlemanly tactic, " Lee observed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guns Of The South]

Curling already is known as a gentlemanly sport boasting of its etiquette and good-natured fun.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

Hector was the best-behaved, best-tempered animal in the world; he might have been called a gentlemanly dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It in the Bush] Reference

I like the Idea of someone who is protective, considerate and gentlemanly, which is what I find in twilight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

"He did a superb job and he was always very gentlemanly, which is not always true of newspapermen," Steward said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fore, right!] Reference

People say he isn't gentlemanly; but when I see the style of man that is called gentlemanly, I am very glad he is not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Potiphar Papers] Reference

How scornful she had been of his excessive indulgence in all the so-called gentlemanly pleasures of wine, women and gambling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outrageous Dowager]

Alomar, who had been known as a gentlemanly player, spit on Umpire John Hirschbeck after a called third strike in a game in 1996.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bats] Reference

A great step towards the finished ease of what is called a gentlemanly demeanour, which he knew he was very far from having attained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born in Exile] Reference

She responded to his "gentlemanly" advance by crying and then taking his hand for support and allowing him to put his arm around her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Call to Treason]

He found that his fellow clerks were not of that "gentlemanly" stamp which his mother thought so admirable, and therefore he despised them.    From Wordnik.com.  [For the term of his natural life] Reference

"I would prefer 'gentlemanly' to 'staid,'" said Palmer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anchorage Daily News - Alaska News] Reference

Chevalier Bayard or Charles Fox, were "gentlemanly" in this way?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Potiphar Papers] Reference

"That must be Sam Tyrell, who is called the gentlemanly bushranger of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia] Reference

So she turns him deftly into a reformer, a kind of gentlemanly politician.    From Wordnik.com.  [Together] Reference

That's what now passes for politeness in the once "gentlemanly" world of books.    From Wordnik.com.  [TomDispatch] Reference

That was one of the joys of the "gentlemanly" employment of "recruiting" in the South Seas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call Of The South 1908] Reference

Previn and Harrell are the kind of gentlemanly sidemen who step back and allow her to shine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buffalo News: Home] Reference

In a "gentlemanly" way, he told the Panama John Paŕa Èl Presidenté Campaign to go take a leap.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gun Toting Liberal] Reference

I've watched Mark Martin take the "gentlemanly" approach for 2 decades now and what has it gotten him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference

Next we have the very "gentlemanly" conduct of Mr. Cook, a married man, toward Louisa, while in Mobile (p. 6-11).    From Wordnik.com.  [Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life.] Reference

Quassitz in Moravia they stole two carriage-horses belonging to a lady, merely because a "gentlemanly" officer wanted them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Glimpse of the Late War in Bohemia] Reference

In fact, in the popular sense of the word, he was the most "gentlemanly" appearing man in the stage, or that we saw on the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maine Woods] Reference

The working class guy strolls and votes "gentlemanly" and never gets angry enough about his condition to seek means to change it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard | Headlines] Reference

"gentlemanly" characteristics of Southern leaders and society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference

"gentlemanly" discussionsMr Tan had with members of the board.    From Wordnik.com.  [TODAYonline] Reference

I think it makes someone who runs on the "gentlemanly" platform look like a child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Darcy Burner's Job Interview] Reference

'gentlemanly' talks with Citigroup over the debt, which is costing EMI 10 percent a year, or about 300 million pounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten] Reference

"gentlemanly" talks with Citigroup over the debt, which is costing EMI 10 percent a year, or about 300 million pounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

When Howard walks in, he goes straight to Hanks, who offers him a gentlemanly handshake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Code' Breakers] Reference

He is a gentlemanly Confucian who prefers polite private discussion over noisy democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Shadows] Reference

Washington made gentlemanly manners his habit, copying down 110 "Rules of Civility" as a boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Washington And Lincoln] Reference

I've covered Lott for quite some time and find him to be a courteous, gentlemanly fellow in person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Lives: Gop Finds Itself In A Lott Of Pain] Reference