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UK
/mˈænɐ/
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[ US /ˈmænɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈmænɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a way of acting or behaving
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how something is done or how it happens
in the characteristic New York style
their nomadic mode of existence
a lonely way of life
her dignified manner
in an abrasive fashion
his rapid manner of talking -
a kind
what manner of man are you?
How To Use manner In A Sentence
- The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner.
- Some of my remarks here are directed toward conventional scientists, who generally refrain from commenting critically on the wild ideas of a few of their colleagues because it is bad manners.
- A horizontal merger may enable the new entity to set price and output in the same manner as a single-firm monopolist, with the same consequences for consumer welfare.
- Moreover, it is expressly added that if the day before the Passover falls on a Sabbath, one may in this manner purchase a Paschal lamb, and, presumably, all else that is needful for the feast.
- Yorkshire abused by such a pitiful prater; and when wrought up to a certain pitch, she would turn and say something of which neither the matter nor the manner recommended her to Mr. Donne's good - will. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
- There is a great deal of feeling and perhaps some bitterness, but do you not all agree with me that it is quite possible, since there is a fashion of armament in Europe, and since there has been no withdrawal on the part of the Admiralty from the stand taken by the First Lord some months ago, to have the entire Canadian people approach this situation in a calm and in an impartial manner? Canada and the Empire
- I guess she would rather I expressed myself in a more ladylike manner, or at least a little more eloquently.
- We kept Mnemosyne for over two months, and never once did she misconduct herself or behave in an unseamanlike manner. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917
- This is a movie with a distinct and startling cinematic language, but with uncomfortably coercive mannerisms.
- His manner was sly and deceitful.