gentlepersonly
English
editEtymology
editFrom gentleperson + -ly.
Adjective
editgentlepersonly (comparative more gentlepersonly, superlative most gentlepersonly)
- Having the manners or behavior of a gentleperson; having social graces; polite.
- 1974 January 23, Alan H. Olmstead, “Ambitions Clash”, in The Bridgeport Telegram, volume LXXXIII, number 19, Bridgeport, Conn., page twenty-two:
- Possibly there have never been, in one ampitheater,[sic] three gladiators more civilized in style, more moderate in instinct, more gentlepersonly in mood, than Babbidge, Grasso and Killian.
- 1974 February 12, James A.M. Coburn, “Gasoline attitudes”, in The Record, volume 79, number 217, published 18 February 1974, pages B—3:
- I think that the “energy crisis” (or whatever it really is) requires that we all think positively in a gentlepersonly way — not like jungle residents, which the influential Mr. Gorin apparently believes us to be.