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gentlemanlike


  • s  befitting a man of good breeding

  • Bob Tisch, chairman of Loews Hotels, which owns the Regency, and a habitual breakfaster, says, "The transactions are very gentlemanlike, but there is big money negotiated here.
  • These soldiers, who arrive in Switzerland at the rate of about a thousand a day, are the very prototype of gentlemanlike, tactful tourists.
  • The staid Swiss were outraged at the British reportorial tactics (sniffed the respected Neue Zrcher Zeitung: "Hardly gentlemanlike") but could not resist a little curiosity .

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