Definition of "gradely" [grade•ly]

• Of a person; decent, well-meaning, respectable (adjective)
• Excellent (adjective)
• Handsome, fair (adjective)
• Real, proper (adjective)
• Properly, really (adverb)

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• "A farmer will tell his men to do a thing gradely, that is, "properly, well.""
• "I remember once hearing it used in Yorkshire by a man, who, speaking of a neighbour recently dead, said in a tone which implied esteem: "Aye, he was a very _gradely_ fellow.""
• "Now, Ah do call to mind there be a track to left, some way down t 'ro'd, as'll take' ee gentle and pleasant 'tween two gradely hummocks down into Harthborough."