genteelly
- r in a genteel manner
the English lived genteelly in India
- George II, living in genteelly poor exile, had indicated his willingness to take his old job back and restoration fever grew.
- As the sun set on the British Empire, the ESU entered its own twilight zone, aging genteelly like many of its members.
- Sales for what the cosmetics industry genteelly calls "age-specialist" products could shoot well over $2 billion this year, says Mark Brooks of NPD BeautyTrends.