courtly🔊

Corin: You have too courtly a wit for me; I’ll rest.

He is a Master of Civility, no less well-bred to his own Sex than courtly to the other.

As they abased themselves before him, Mr. Micawber took a seat, and waved his hand in his most courtly manner.

The rich are in general slaves to fear, and submit to courtly power with the trembling duplicity of a spaniel.

He had for years held some clerical office appertaining to courtly matters, which had enabled him to live in London,

That judgment James had notoriously obtained […] by dismissing scrupulous magistrates, and by placing on the bench other magistrates more courtly.

Here FLATT'RY, eldest born of guile, / Weaves with rare skill the silken smile, / The courtly cringe, the supple bow, / The private squeeze, the Levee vow, / With which, no strange or recent case, / Fools in deceive Fools out of place.

The driver waited courtly by the open doors of the saloon.

[…] where, in the name of wonder, have you learn’d to talk so courtly?