[
US
/ˈmænɝd/
]
[ UK /mˈænəd/ ]
[ UK /mˈænəd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
having unnatural mannerisms
brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom
How To Use mannered In A Sentence
- 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.
- I have seen your mailbox, and think it would look lovely with a nice well mannered clem. Clems, Roses and Good Things Coming To An End « Fairegarden