How To Use Manners In A Sentence

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.
Mother attaches a great deal of value to good manners.
In what is called our freer modern life, manners have come to count for a good deal less, which makes sheer manner count for a good deal more. Behavior in Public Places
At lunch, Monsieur Caïn and his wife, who epitomize the nouveau bourgeoisie, continue to berate their daughter for what they see as appalling manners and lack of respect.
The lesson is clear: good manners, fair treatment and a lack of guile are good for business. Times, Sunday Times

Or he would lecture her on the bad manners and delinquent habits of the twins, as displayed on their infrequent visits to him. Times, Sunday Times
We won't wear "bloomers," or make any attempt to imitate you in our dress, manners, or occupations; we will do nothing to offend the most fastidious, we will be women still. The Womans Advocate
Upon these interjections, placable flicks of the lionly tail addressed to Britannia the Ruler, who expected him in some mildish way to lash terga cauda in retiring, Sir Willoughby Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; and ever after he spoke of America respectfully and pensively, with a tail tucked in, as it were. The Egoist
Mr Foster maintained his composure: If acceptable manners were a paddock, Mademoiselle Marguerite had not yet jumped the fence.
Archer is thankful that his future wife knows and follows the manners and customs of New York society.
They have bad manners, contempt for authority and no respect for older people.
Straight through her flawless appearance and extraordinary manners I saw an artificial person.
What's most distinctive about this mordant comedy of manners is the resolutely awkward cinematography. Times, Sunday Times
I do not remember being trained in manners and respectful behaviour.
My initial concerns with the cramped interior of the car were alleviated a little by its good road manners.
Her father was a quiet man with graceful manners.
As well as these basic manners, youngsters are not being shown skills like how to sit still, to tie shoelaces and fasten buttons.
It's bad manners to whisper in company.
[146] Johnson's observations on Addison's writings may be well applied to those of Cicero, who would have been eminently successful in short miscellaneous essays, like those of the Spectator, had the manners of the age allowed it. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
He has been so little read that four specimens of his different manners -- the early "tenebrous" style of _The A History of Elizabethan Literature
Meg liked his quiet manners and considered him a walking encyclopedia of useful knowledge. Little Women
-- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
I don't know that I'd go so far as to call our Mardi Gras tasteful I'm looking forward to the all-girl Camel Toe Steppers marching group tomorrow night, for example, but yeah, we're Miss Manners in comparison to this float. "If we had people dancing on top of dead bodies that would indeed be disrespectful."
He apparently made a charming studio companion with his courtly manners and elegant conversation. Times, Sunday Times
There is no doubt manners and social graces are essential pillars to hold up our society.
Show your manners!" called Emil; and the boys pranced up to the ladies, old and young; with polite invitations to "tread the mazy," as dear Dick Little Men
Bringing a set of darts to an interview could be viewed as a warning to lairy journalists to mind their manners, but not with Meadows.
It was normally considered bad manners to denigrate the dead, on the theory that they could not defend themselves. THE CURSE OF CHALION
His bad table manners embarrassed her.
Kellen blushed, and assented, wondering if he'd ever really get the hang of the indirectness of Elven manners. Tran Siberian
The sweetness of her manners made everyone like her.
Her terrible manners at the dinner table disgusted me.
"Most onliners are not clear communicators," says Judith Kallos, of www.netmanners.com.
On another occasion Heine writes that Kalkbrenner is envied for his elegant manners, for his polish and sweetishness, and for his whole marchpane-like appearance, in which, however, ihe calm observer discovers a shabby admixture of involuntary Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
The crack and the manners and all the things you take for granted that I dinna have. AN OLDER WOMAN
The proclamation complained that tobacco tended to corrupt men's bodies and manners, and that to cultivate tobacco was ‘to abuse and misemploy the soil of this fruitful kingdom’.
The frequentation of courts checks this petulancy of manners; the good-breeding and circumspection which are necessary, and only to be learned there, correct those pertnesses. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Being cruel, guileful and unscrupulous, the terrorist committed all manners of crimes including murder and arson.
They correct none of the childish nasty tricks, which they get at school; nor the illiberal manners which they contract at the university; nor the frivolous and superficial pertness, which is commonly all that they acquire by their travels. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
His manners, outlook and attitude stank. The Sun
It is bad manners to speak with your mouth full.
Good manners ban abusive language anywhere.
There was courtesy and consideration and manners. Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.
Your table manners are appalling - don't you know how to use a knife and fork?
My cousins were mere cubs, in whose company I might, if I liked it, unlearn whatever decent manners, or elegant accomplishments, I had acquired, but where I could attain no information beyond what regarded worming dogs, rowelling horses, and following foxes. Rob Roy
Lounging around the family home, the Dane's good house manners make it a good house pet.
Where does chivalry at last become something more than a mere procession of plumes and armor, to be lamented by Burke, except in some of the less ambitious verses of the Trouvères, where we hear the canakin clink too emphatically, perhaps, but which at least paint living men and possible manners? The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
Their rude manners grate on us.
I have no social plans for this weekend, I'm eating more simply, I got lots of sleep last night and so that just leaves minding my manners and everything should go swimmingly.
It deals with two women who reject their suitors because they've decided they want to marry men who are more fashionable, affected and accustomed to courtly manners.
I see outlets that make fun of furries in manners that range from gentle fun-poking to outright malice.
I am reminded of the movie, Rachel and the Stranger, where the widower laments that his wife fought so hard to make their isolated cabin a home and bring beauty to it by insisting on planting flowers in the front yard, bringing her spinet to the West and playing it every evening, buying a metronome for her playing, educating their son in the home and insisting that he show good manners. Archive 2007-09-01
The British reviews were cold and formal... The great Romantic critics had not appeared, to take the starch out of their pompous manners.
However, as their team begins to get picked off in grisly manners not fit for television, they realize they are in over their heads. Supernatural: Ghostfacers Promo Pics : SF Universe - SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts.
he has the manners of a pig
It was typical of his good manners to make light of his impending death. Times, Sunday Times
I condemn such crude manners.
All the guests were models of decorum, grace and manners and I didn't know if I would get used to such good behaviour.
This feminine fashion with the antique agrees with a great freedom of manners, this vestimentary behaviour lets see the shapes of the body as much as possible, does not obstruct the movements and facilitates the joys of the dance.
I think he is really getting quite polished in his manners. North and South
I do not accept the argument that it is capitalism that has atomised us, hence creating a society where people feel little obligation to their fellow citizens and where bad manners proliferate.
Beneath his tissue-thin veneer of good manners,he was a very vulgar man.
When did we no longer appreciate that to dignify certain modes of behavior, manners, and ways of being with artistic representation was implicitly to glorify and promote them?
The marginal are not rational; they are ignorant; they lack discipline; they are disorganized; they lack proper language and manners.
Excuse her bad manners.
So he bore with his injurious usage, saying to himself, Verily insolence and evil-speaking are causes of perdition and cast into confusion, and it is said, ‘The insolent is shent and the ignorant doth repent; and whose feareth, to him safety is sent’: moderation marketh the noble and gentle manners are of gains the grandest. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Her manners and behaviour were very charming and she was one good looking and well spoken woman.
Shaftesbury's formulation of sentimentality as either a manifestation of latitudinarianism or deism, both vaguely secularized systems of advancing self-sufficient virtue as the means by which manners dominated and controlled behavior in the public realm. Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos
The same message goes out from sports team managers, some of whom are developing very bad sideline manners of late.
Perhaps someone could offer a reasonable explanation - not just a lame excuse - for this apparent cold, ungracious, disrespectful conduct and lapse in basic good manners?
Everyone co-operated in making sure that good manners were maintained, even if it meant snitching on people who used bad language.
Even if I thought that I had some moral or good manners responsibility to use the label preferred by a strong majority of the group, I see no basis for accepting such a responsibility to use the label preferred by a vocal minority, or even half of thegroup. The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Word I Will Gladly Continue To Use:
I don't think it is wrong, or a waste of time, to point out the virtue of manners and good behaviour.
Its inhabitants' manners and mores are documented with eyewitness vividness.
Through a twenty-year correspondence, Otto von Habsburg has also shown me the manners and politesse of the Old World juxtaposed with the pragmatism and political sense of the new.
Modern footballers have been so pampered and spoilt from such an early age that they have lost all sense of proportion, dignity or manners. The Sun
And yet these good manners keep people at a distance. Times, Sunday Times
Despite bad moods and worse manners, the car could always be tamed by appreciation, patience and just enough rein.
The prestige and appeal of their manners radiated far beyond the exclusive social cliques of Damascus itself.
These are people of refinement, they have manners and tact and I'm sure they're all expecting the same of you.
Madame Monconseil assures me that you are most surprisingly improved in your air, manners, and address: go on, my dear child, and never think that you are come to a sufficient degree of perfection; Nil actum reputans, si quid superesset agendum; and in those shining parts of the character of a gentleman, there is always something remaining to be acquired. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Hadji Baba, had described the manners and vices of the Eastern nations, not only with fidelity, but with the humour of Le Sage and the ludicrous power of Fielding himself, one who was a perfect stranger to the subject must necessarily produce an unfavourable contrast. The Talisman
Manners are not a private affair, but are matters of great public concern.
I cannot see through the mysteries of things; I cannot understand why man should come into the world with fingers so apt to fankle that he cannot play the finest tunes all the time and in the best of manners. Doom Castle
I wish to acquaint your love in Christ that the very zealous brethren who have been commissioned by your reverence to act for you in this good work have won praise for all the clergy by the amiability of their manners; for by their individual modesty and conciliatoriness they have shewn the sound condition of all. NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works
If inclined to the characteristic excesses of the period (hard drinking, gambling, promiscuity), his view of the world depicted its manners, vices, politics, and incidents, but without censoriousness.
Desperate to extricate herself from the situation, she ends up at the "Cat Bureau" where she gets help from Baron, a living porcelain cat figurine with refined manners, a Puss-'n'-Boots-style of omnicompetence, and a couple of goofball sidekicks. Archive 2007-09-01
Bad manners are the outward sign of a seriously selfish individual.
Their manners and movements are unaffected and elegant; they dress in exquisite taste; and with a grace peculiarly their own, their manners have a fascination and witchery which is perfectly irresistible. The Englishwoman in America
He would show, as Ibsen shows, and with an equal lack of malice prepense, various detestable features which the mask of good manners had concealed. Henrik Ibsen
Peter Bowles as Judith's novelist husband best catches the acidulous tone of Coward's comedy of bad manners.
His manners are appalling you can't take him anywhere!
Any time your children show good manners - which is at the heart of being considerate and kind - lavish praise on them.
After that his manners greatly improved, and he became very fond of their dog, Timmy.
Riesman made the suburbs the prime locale of those who sacrificed their “inner-directed” opportunities in order to be “other-directed” by the prevailing manners and mores of their community. Suburbs of Our Discontent
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It does not win matches but shows impeccable manners. The Sun
'I wouldn't have given it him, but it is _rude_ -- it is _bad manners_, not even to ask!' the supposed victress was saying to herself, with quivering lips, her eyes following not the Trinity freshman, who was their latest captive, but an older man's well-knit figure, and a head on which the fair hair was already growing scantily, receding a little from the fine intellectual brows. Robert Elsmere
In a society seeking moral footing after 50 years of totalitarian rot, he found these public manners personally appalling and potentially combustible.
How much more in keeping with Christian manners that the son of the household should share in the burden of keeping the domestic machinery running smoothly, rather than misemploy his time, and grow up unacquainted with the practical duties of life! Stories Worth Rereading
He was pale, of brusque manners, somewhat given to affectation, but of immaculate dress and generous to his enemies.
Then it forgot its manners utterly and groaned when it made out that a sudden splash represented its favourite, while the indomitable Darrell still trod the quarter-deck as champion birler for the year. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
He is a pent-up wall of fussy manners and glacial reserve that instantly puts people on edge. Times, Sunday Times
Please spare us any more of your bad manners, chutzpah, irony and hypocrisy!
Great manners, I would just say thanks and no more, though I would be in stiches laughing. Minding One’s Peens and Q’s | Her Bad Mother
She then entered into a detail of her way of life, told him how little suited to her taste was the unbounded dissipation of the Harrels, and feelingly expatiated upon the disappointment she had received from the alteration in the manners and conduct of her young friend. Cecilia
It is -difficult to subscribe to the manners of another world when you don't know what they are. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
This most mistaken opinion gives an indelicacy, a brusquerie, and a roughness to the manners. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
This most mistaken opinion gives an indelicacy, a 'brusquerie', and a roughness to the manners. Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752
In her acceptance she broke the code of propriety, went beyond the established manners in a light encounter.
He bowed slightly, the familiarity of instilled manners providing him with a space to gather himself. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Jill darted forward and pulled him aside, giving his wrist a sharp slap to teach him manners.
_A Description of the natives of_ Louisiana; _of their manners and customs, particularly those of the_ Natchez: _of their language, their religion, ceremonies_, Rulers _or_ Suns, _feasts, marriages, &c. History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing
I told him to mind his manners and not interrupt the ancient dodderer of a priest who was gabbling the service. Flashman on the March
His mansion was noble, his library extensive, and his own manners such as conciliated the esteem of almost every one who approached him. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
In the films, he takes on the adventure novel, placing extraordinary people in extraordinary situations, and ironizing those structures in playfully dubious manners.
And yet this bike had impeccable manners. The Sun
He is the fountain-head of good manners and correct social behaviour as well as the ultimate spiritual and ethical guide.
She seemed to be rather plain, a rather dim little person with mouse-coloured hair and conventional manners.
The Labour Party will soon learn the value of these polite demonstrations that it is always its duty not to hamper the governing classes in their very difficult and delicate and dangerous task of safeguarding the interests of this great empire: in short, to let itself be gammoned by elegant phrases and by adroit practisings on its personal good-nature, its inveterate proletarian sentimentality, and its secret misgivings as to the correctness of its manners. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index
We have adopted postures and gestures and manners that pronounce our chosen status. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
That was why the father, arriving from Berlin, had on his own initiative brought them an English governess; for the English are admitted by their continental friends to excel in this special branch of manners, while their continental enemies charge them with being "ostentatiously" well groomed and dainty. Home Life in Germany
In these days we are always too late, and those marvels of the Oriental cosmorama, those curious manners, those masterpieces of The Adventures of a Special Correspondent
This is unexpected because the reader is lured into devastating news by a long preamble that seems absorbed with French manners, salon gossip and where to find a good chef.
It's a brutish and large vehicle that has great road manners yet is more versatile than a car.
His manners are perfect — not Chesterfieldian, and yet never offensive. Phineas Finn
Rudeness is defined as: lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse; of untaught manners; uncivil; ignorant; lacking chasteness or elegance. Ed and Deb Shapiro: How Does A Waitress Deal With Rude People?
Gentle and debonair in manners, he knows how to be a submissive husband and cater to the needs of his sweetheart.
No, there was nothing sublime and dolorous about Miss Manners; her face was round, cheery, and slightly puckered, with two little black eyes sparking and shining under dark brows, a nose she unblushingly called pug, and a big mouth with eminently white and regular teeth, which she said were such a comfort, for they never ached, and never would to the end of time. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
Amid the groves of academe, entrenched in the ivy covered tranquil buildings, there lurks more politics, latent hostility and simply bad manners than one can imagine.
They also appear, imbued with human attributes, in myths and fables, making them key agents in the teaching of indigenous manners and codes of behavior.
At such times, all that held the royal household together was its thin veneer of ceremony and exquisite manners. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
I am going to make extra effort to use good manners and proper social behavior.
The little tiddledywinks business that I've got to learn -- all the value there is in the mass of balderdash about manners and dress -- I can learn it in a few lessons. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel
It always bemuses me when people get upset about supercilious piffle like good manners but dont get upset about important things like radical islam, Neathergate, EUSSR, the mps expenses scandal. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
How he had managed it was a mystery to her, since she was doubly inhibited by his more natural manners.
She was always finding fault with his manners.
Brains, manners, road sense and common sense don't exist in the motorists' world and the biggest nut on a car sits behind that steering wheel.
As a result many of these students alter their speech in order to be accepted into an anglicised Scottish middle class intelligentsia, further validating anglicised language and manners as a prerequisite for participation.
He exploits his wealth, smooth manners, and sometimes intimidating aspect to secure an engagement with the protagonist's true love, a Southern lady whose "Haytian" servant is secretly a voodoo priestess with some impressive supernatural talents of her own. Archive 2006-10-15
Italy has always preserved its name, notwithstanding the pretended establishment of Æneas, which should have left some traces of the language, characters, and manners of Phrygia, if he ever came with Achates and so many others, into the province of A Philosophical Dictionary
Under the general keying-up of the altitude, manners take on a heartiness, a vivacity, that is one expression of the half-unconscious excitement which Colorado people miss when they drop into lower strata of air. The song of the lark
I knew it was rude and impolite but I was too distressed to be thinking of manners.
His table manners must be impeccable. Times, Sunday Times
I would immediately pounce on the ballottine and the fried fish as my grandmother would shake her head in despair over my lack of manners. Apricots on the Nile
Devoid of attractions or of amiable manners, Madame Guillaume commonly decorated her head — that of a woman near on sixty — with a cap of a particular and unvarying shape, with long lappets, like that of a widow. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
He said that his first responsibility was off the court, where he emphasized that his players display courtesy and manners.
With style and impeccable manners he did all these things plus many more. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Gardiner, whose manners were very easy and pleasant, encouraged her communicativeness by his questions and remarks; Mrs. Reynolds, either by pride or attachment, had evidently great pleasure in talking of her master and his sister. Pride and Prejudice
Good manners demanded the disclaimer of hunger from the wayfarer, but the geography of the Colorado Plateau made it an obvious lie. A THIEF OF TIME
Honours change manners.
The Scotchman was the best supported, for his manners were pleasing, and his willingness to oblige infinite. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
Apparently, Wilbur was incensed at her bad manners.
Courtly manners or no, I will still outride you!
I think good manners are dwindling from road users generally: motorist, pedestrian and cyclist. Times, Sunday Times
The loud, the abusive, the vulgar have demolished the restraints and the manners which heretofore governed public discourse.
In fact, they'd even had several discussions with her about being civil and minding her manners.
I strongly recommend the book for anyone who thinks manners are boring, deadening constraints on their individuality.
The city is small and comforting, and its people live in genteel pockets of suburbia and have 1950s good manners.
Mrs. Manning! she sometimes thought that proud title dearly purchased by listening to his daily criticisms on appearance, language, manners, which had been esteemed stylish enough in their day. Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest
In _Cur. _ 462 ff. the _choragus_ interpolates a recital composed of topical allusions to the manners of different neighborhoods of Rome. The Dramatic Values in Plautus
Yet it was not an age of gross and open vices; manners were not flagitious, they were merely of a nauseous insipidity. Henrik Ibsen
It's only gotten worse lately in Old City - which, let's be honest, has never been a bastion of refined taste and manners.
Alex, with his clumsy manners, his awkward yet almost sweet behavior… and his captivating personality.
He understood the importance of table manners, as a way to teach courtesy and social skills. Times, Sunday Times
He really does have good manners, thought Richard as he strode alongside the Commandant down the pathway which led from the sawpit to Government House and the storage sheds, one of which, he noted, held the coble and an even smaller boat made from the pieces of the old coble which had foundered on the reef and drowned four men. Morgan’s Run
Meanwhile, Dr. Frankenstein is working on Eva's manners and social skills.
He may be writing a murder mystery, but his novel is primarily concerned with the nature of small-town America and its particular manners and morals.
The researchers claim that ‘politeness, manners and etiquette’ are now the pinnacle of chic.
And an extraneous influence has worked in the same direction -- the gradual softening of manners within historical times, that demasculinization which is an inevitable concomitant of increasing social security. Old Calabria
The rest of us, not on the rag, had to sit inside the tarps while our priestess (we also called her a "priestess" -- I can hardly believe it as I write) poured Colorado River water on heated rocks, and some one we called "Miss Manners" beat a drum. E. Jean Carroll: Sweat Lodges Are Sitting Bull
Beneath his refined manners and superficial elegance the man was a snake.
The woman told Mary in a whisper to pinch it often, and to sing to it off-key all the time because the Good People can't stand either bad manners or bad music.
And so, for the honour of our own, will I judge of every woman for the future, who imitating the rougher manners of men, acts unbeseeming the gentleness of her own sex. Clarissa Harlowe
In democracies, it is the press which puts manners on governments, not the other way around.
To be aggressive in behaviour, arrogant in manners and harsh in language is a manifestation of savagery.
He could at least have had the manners to answer my letter.
Clarissa was extremely voluble on the subject of good manners.
Just the pampered young minion of any Tuscan court, a precocious wrappage of wit, good manners, and sensibility, he looked what he spoke, the exquisite Florentine, to these broad-vowelled Venetian lasses; did not smile, but seemed never out of temper; and was certainly not timid. Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
The slave states, were marked by ‘the unequal distribution of property, the toleration of slavery, the ignorance and poverty of the lower classes,’ and a ‘dissoluteness of manners.’
From his manners of speaking,I took him for a Japanese.
Sophia sighed at his manners, but took some and did likewise, though with dignity.
It's just good behaviour and good manners. Times, Sunday Times
Good manners ban abusive language anyplace.
He was senior pastor of a staid old church full of money, manners, and momentum. Christianity Today
There is a lack of manners, a lack of courtesy nowadays, and you don't have to be Einstein to work out that the very fabric of society seems to be crumbling.
He belongs to the nobility and wears their cloak and manners. The Times Literary Supplement
Yet when I name custom, I understand not the vulgar custom; for that were a precept no less dangerous to language than life, if we should speak or live after the manners of the vulgar: but that I call custom of speech, which is the consent of the learned; as custom of life, which is the consent of the good. Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
Now, though I would not recommend to you, to go into women’s company in search of solid knowledge, or judgment, yet it has its use in other respects; for it certainly polishes the manners, and gives une certaine tournure, which is very necessary in the course of the world; and which Englishmen have generally less of than any people in the world. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
If war were the qoeftion, he would talk of travci« ling; if diplomatic concerns were upon the carpet, he woald reUfia the manners, or inquire into the local peculiarities of the country; oc if the ftate of affairs at home were in difcuHion, he would dwell upon The Monthly Review
They are also of British background, genial disposition and impeccable manners. Times, Sunday Times
He put a high value on caring for people and practising good manners. Times, Sunday Times
An overwhelming majority of my friends have dating horror stories, filled with bad manners and cloddish moments. Diana Bianchini: Upsize Love
He was already dreaded for his prowess in argument, his dictatorial manners and vivid flashes of wit and humour, the more effective from the habitual gloom and apparent heaviness of the discourser. Samuel Johnson
To which Miss Manners icily replies that eating spaghetti with a fork and spoon was “outrageous”, because 2010 January « Motivated Grammar
This style is clearly part of a baroque aesthetic of the table which corresponds to a highly codified system of manners, in which protocol and precedence reigned supreme.
He apparently made a charming studio companion with his courtly manners and elegant conversation. Times, Sunday Times
It's not something to greet with languid good manners. Times, Sunday Times
That will give you total reliability and manners suited to the road.

How To Use Manners In A Sentence

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