mannered

How To Use mannered In A Sentence

• The guests of the banquet sway extraneously from portrayals as parasites, wild, carnivorous beasts and ravenous dogs to spoilt brats at a kids' party to well mannered socialites.
• Hickstone gave a very mannered performance in the lead role.
• It was incredibly bad-mannered of me, but I felt myself falling asleep. TIME OF THE WOLF
• Forrest was normally mild-mannered, affable, and untalkative.
• Its intention is to restore pride in the past and create a more mannered society.
• In appearance and atmosphere he was a strapping big college man, smooth-faced and easy-mannered, clean and simple and wholesome, with a known record of being a splendid athlete and an implied vast possession of cold culture of the inhibited sort. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
• I was abominably ill-mannered, and I apologize.
• At this point in the play, folk culture of Lenten abnegation and christening joy collides with mannered personal interaction and judgmental asperity.
• What on earth had Hugh Puddephat done to provoke such passionate hatred in this well-mannered woman?
• Last week, your mild mannered reporter was walking through Knightsbridge, and he glanced in an easterly direction.