[Lion Den Dan]

Please don’t refer to crooks, bums, killers and lunatics as gentlemen. They are difinitively not.

[Lion Den Dan]

difinitively = definitively

[Stepan12]

Please don’t refer to crooks, bums, killers and lunatics as gentlemen. They are difinitively not.

But I put gentlemen (actually gentleman) in italics! Italics are used for emphasis and, also, for irony. I was using italics when referring to him for irony. It's a common practice.

[keats5]

Yes, that’s one of my personal peeves, too. I once read an article which said something to the effect, “...and then the GENTLEMAN decapitated her...”