gentlemanlikely

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gentlemanlikely

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From gentlemanlike + -ly.

adverb more gentlemanlikely · most gentlemanlikely

In a gentlemanlike manner. But lo! at twelve o’clock, or thereabouts, after Windham had spoken against the pension, tho’ very gentlemanlikely, and nobody (as I thought) had spoken well for it—what should I do but get up and make such a speech as quite surprized my own self, and seemed to carry the whole House with it?
Similar: gentlemanlily, gentlemanly

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@misc{gentlemanlikely_2026,
  title = {gentlemanlikely},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gentlemanlikely},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}