Noun, : Do you know that gentleman over there? ,Gentlemen, please come this way. ,He behaved like a true gentleman. ,The chair recognizes the gentleman from Massachusetts. From Dictionary.com.
We are unable to conceive how the "gentlemanlike" can otherwise be maintained; and maintained in this way it is. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
They are orderly, well-conducted, gentlemanlike boys. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Birch and his young friends] Reference
A sort of cool, gentlemanlike manner, but very silent. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
He forgot all respect and even gentlemanlike behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
The subject followed; it was in plain, unaffected, gentlemanlike. From Wordnik.com. [Emma] Reference
"I understood father to say that he was very gentlemanlike in appearance.". From Wordnik.com. [The Garies and Their Friends] Reference
He is a very gentlemanlike, good-looking, pleasant young man, I assure you. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Little Rawdon exhibited a fine appetite and showed a gentlemanlike behaviour. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
I am convinced that it will end in a very gentlemanlike hand, much above par. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
He is a young man — modest and gentlemanlike — I am sure you will like him. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
There is something extremely refined and gentlemanlike in this form of liberality. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and boobies. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
A time-honoured, gentlemanlike, English, picturesque arrangement is so far very delightful. From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
So then the refined and gentlemanlike man will bear himself thus as being a law to himself. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
Adm. Stanhope is a gentlemanlike man, but then his legs are too short and his tail too long. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
Every fellow, particularly these gentlemanlike fellows, they have a pluck at you when they can. From Wordnik.com. [Wylder's Hand] Reference
Your reproof, so well applied, I shall never forget: ‘had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.’. From Wordnik.com. [Pride and Prejudice] Reference
Mr Howard, his brother, is a very gentlemanlike, very handsome young man, worthy of his sister Lady Cawdor. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
Mr. Gardiner was a sensible, gentlemanlike man, greatly superior to his sister, as well by nature as education. From Wordnik.com. [Pride and Prejudice] Reference
Mr. Bingley was good – looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. From Wordnik.com. [Pride and Prejudice] Reference
Our present arrangement of parochial incomes is beloved as being time-honoured, gentlemanlike, English, and picturesque. From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
In the breakfast-room we found Lady Susan, and a young man of gentlemanlike appearance, whom she introduced by the name of. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Susan] Reference
Otherwise, even in those early days and on that short acquaintance, he struck me as being a modest and gentlemanlike young man. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
We shall both be most happy to receive you and your husband, who is, I must say, one of the most gentlemanlike looking men I ever saw. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
He was very gentlemanlike in appearance, and even elegant; but I never liked him, although he undoubtedly had a superficial fascination. From Wordnik.com. [Wylder's Hand] Reference
Their chivalry, patriotism, gentlemanlike deportment, and professional skill cannot be too much admired and applauded by their countrymen. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in California] Reference
Walter Blake was an effeminate-looking, slight-made man, about thirty or thirty-three years of age; good looking, and gentlemanlike, but presenting quite. From Wordnik.com. [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference
I might be all in the wrong — and was, no doubt, unreasonable — for he bore a high character, and passed for a very gentlemanlike man among the villagers. From Wordnik.com. [Wylder's Hand] Reference
Such, at least, is the advantage of having a gentlemanlike appearance; it has saved me many a time since by procuring me credit when my fortunes were at their lowest ebb. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference
The attorney rose, made another bow, and threw back his head, and moved in a way that was oppressively gentlemanlike to the door, and speedily vanished at the little wicket. From Wordnik.com. [Wylder's Hand] Reference
It was true that he could not himself intone the service, but he could procure the co-operation of any number of gentlemanlike curates well trained in the mystery of doing so. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
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