GENTEELLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genteelly mean? 

• GENTEELLY (adverb)
  The adverb GENTEELLY has 1 sense:

1. in a genteel manner

  Familiarity information: GENTEELLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENTEELLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a genteel manner

Context example:

the English lived genteelly in India

Pertainym:

genteel (marked by refinement in taste and manners)

 Context examples 

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.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Davies was coming to town, and so we thought we'd join him in a post-chaise; and he behaved very genteelly, and paid ten or twelve shillings more than we did.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Micawber, genteelly adjusting his chin in his cravat, presently proceeded with his composition.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have discovered my friend Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber genteelly, and without addressing himself particularly to anyone, not in solitude, but partaking of a social meal in company with a widow lady, and one who is apparently her offspring—in short, said Mr. Micawber, in another of his bursts of confidence, her son.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)