Genteelly
[dʒen'ti:llɪ]
Definition
(adv.) in a genteel manner; 'the English lived genteelly in India'.
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Definition
(adv.) In a genteel manner.
Checker: Sinclair
Examples
- What right have such men to represent Christianity--as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly--as if-- Mary checked herself. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Miss Trotwood was good enough to mention that she had a nephew who was her peculiar care, and for whom she was seeking to provide genteelly in life. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I wished Joe had been rather more genteelly brought up, and then I should have been so too. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Checker: Sinclair