Definition of "gentlemanlike" []

• Like a gentleman; courteous. (adjective)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "I imagine him to be old, for Mr Hood is the acting partner — he seems about 40, and with what we call a gentlemanlike carriage; he seems naturally good-naturd, and perhaps would have told me more particulars if I had found heart enuff to ask them."
• "Had this happened to a French petit maitre, death must have ensued: but mark what followed — The Athenian, far from resenting the outrage, in what is now called a gentlemanlike manner, said, “Do, strike if you please; but hear me.”"
• "We are unable to conceive how the "gentlemanlike" can otherwise be maintained; and maintained in this way it is."