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chivalrously

[ UK /ʃˈɪvə‍lɹəsli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a gallant manner
    he gallantly offered to take her home

How To Use chivalrously In A Sentence

  • Like Flaubert, Daudet was a syphilitic, boasting unchivalrously that he'd caught the disease from ‘a lady from the top drawer’.
  • I would rather this tongue should wither than that I should unchivalrously permit it to deviate one straw's breadth from the truth in order to attain a selfish purpose. Barbara Blomberg — Volume 10
  • In fact, he was renowned for spending more times in the air than being at home sorting domestic problems, which he unchivalrously has now handed over to his successor.
  • Pamphlets were circulated to rouse the enthusiasm of the nation, by depicting the wrongs of a young and beautiful queen, so unchivalrously assailed by bearded monarchs in overwhelming combination. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power
  • unchivalrously, the husbands who had to provide such innocent indulgences eventually began to count the costs
  • In that famous clash in Flanders in 1745, aristocratic officers from both the British and French armies strolled between the lines of musketeers, chivalrously inviting the other side to fire first.
  • He went on more cheerfully, telling himself unchivalrously that he had got Mary V's goat, all right. Skyrider
  • Notwithstanding that only a few men yearn to be compleat gentlemen - to live chivalrously - the yearning is a constant, from one millennium to the next.
  • Prejean, whom Somerby unchivalrously describes as "an insignificant 21-year-old," competed as Miss California in the Miss USA beauty pageant. In Defense of Keith Olbermann
  • There was one seat left which was taken, rather unchivalrously, by Russell, leaving Meg on the floor at his feet.
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