(adv.) in a genteel manner; 'the English lived genteelly in India'.
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双语例句
What right have such men to represent Christianity--as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly--as if-- Mary checked herself. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
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. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
I wished Joe had been rather more genteelly brought up, and then I should have been so too. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.