"gentleman-like" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more gentleman-like",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most gentleman-like",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1596, Thomas Nashe, “The life and godly education from his childhood of that thrice famous clarke, and morthie Orator and Poet Gabriell Haruey”, in Have with You to Saffron-Walden, London: John Danter",
          "text": "Deuinitie (the Heauen of all Artes) for a while drew his thoughts vnto it, but shortly after the world the flesh and the diuell with-drewe him from that, and needes he would be of a more Gentleman-like lustie cut; whereupon hee fell to morrall Epistling and Poetrie.",
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          "ref": "1778 May 14, Ignatius Sancho, “Letter LXII. To Miss C⸻.”, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. […], volume I, London: […] J. Nichols: And sold by J. Dodsley, […], published 1782, pages 195–196",
          "text": "I proteſt, it is to me the moſt difficult of things to write to one of your female geniuſes—there is a certain degree of cleverality (if I may ſo call it), an eaſy kind of derangement of periods, a gentleman-like—faſhionable—careleſs—ſee-ſaw of dialogue—which I know no more of than you do of cruelty.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of gentlemanlike."
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  "word": "gentleman-like"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more gentleman-like",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most gentleman-like",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "word": "gentlemanlike"
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          "ref": "1596, Thomas Nashe, “The life and godly education from his childhood of that thrice famous clarke, and morthie Orator and Poet Gabriell Haruey”, in Have with You to Saffron-Walden, London: John Danter",
          "text": "Deuinitie (the Heauen of all Artes) for a while drew his thoughts vnto it, but shortly after the world the flesh and the diuell with-drewe him from that, and needes he would be of a more Gentleman-like lustie cut; whereupon hee fell to morrall Epistling and Poetrie.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1778 May 14, Ignatius Sancho, “Letter LXII. To Miss C⸻.”, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. […], volume I, London: […] J. Nichols: And sold by J. Dodsley, […], published 1782, pages 195–196",
          "text": "I proteſt, it is to me the moſt difficult of things to write to one of your female geniuſes—there is a certain degree of cleverality (if I may ſo call it), an eaſy kind of derangement of periods, a gentleman-like—faſhionable—careleſs—ſee-ſaw of dialogue—which I know no more of than you do of cruelty.",
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        }
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