gentleman-like

However, Tiger, for me, will never again have the aura of class and gentleman-like behaviour that he did before.

ProWomanProLife » Well, gosh, I don’t 2009

I think this bit of dialog nicely captures the gentleman-like approach to ass-kicking that separated Swayze from many of his contemporaries -- that and the perpetual shirtlessness.

Will Menaker: "Pain Don't Hurt": RIP Patrick Swayze 2009

It does not take courage or gentleman-like manners to deal with a bunch of dictators, who do not have “dialogue” with their own citizens?

Obama Tells Arab World U.S. Will ‘Start by Listening’ - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

Rushdie is furious, in his calm, gentleman-like manner, that certain terms cannot be used.

Alan Miller: "What Would Woodly Allen Do If He Couldn't Be Rude About Jews?" And Other Questions Raised By Salman Rushdie 2008

You never hear any laughing at HB.; his pictures are a great deal too genteel for that — polite points of wit, which strike one as exceedingly clever and pretty, and cause one to smile in a quiet, gentleman-like kind of way.

George Cruikshank 2006

Why, he furnished the house in the Edgware Road before mentioned, he ordered a handsome service of plate, he sported a phaeton and two ponies, he kept a couple of smart maids and a groom foot-boy — in fact, he mounted just such a neat unpretending gentleman-like establishment as becomes a respectable young couple on their outset in life.

Mens Wives 2006

Agamemnon is always a gentleman-like character; he has always.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

I did so, with a courtesy, and he led me up the steps of the alcove, and, in a most gentleman-like manner, presented me to the ladies, and they all saluted me, and said, They hoped to be better acquainted with me: and Lady Darnford was pleased to say, I should be the flower of their neighbourhood.

Pamela 2006

Not long since a very gentleman-like man, Major Delamere let us call him (I like the title of Major very much), requested to see me, named a dead gentleman who he said had been our mutual friend, and on the strength of this mutual acquaintance, begged me to cash his cheque for five pounds!

Roundabout Papers 2006

Such a light, brisk, airy, gentleman-like drawing was never made upon such a theme.

George Cruikshank 2006