ADJECTIVE
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socially incorrect in behavior
resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion
How To Use ill-mannered In A Sentence
- I was abominably ill-mannered, and I apologize.
- I found him to be ill-mannered and didn't take to him at all.
- He shows himself to be an ill-mannered, thin-skinned, easily flattered narcissistic ignoramus, given to stupid jokes, banal observations, casual rudeness and hypocritical pieties.
- I am rock's foremost poet and ill-mannered grouch.
- As if in order to get his mind off the ill-mannered, rude, loutish - and potentially lethal - antics of lowbred, narcissistic drivers, he turns to me and asks, ‘Not counting your parents, who most influenced you between the ages of zero and eighteen?’
- Your watch is missing and you suspect that your ill-mannered pooch swallowed it down with his kibble.
- On the contrary, he grew presumptuous on success; and when he printed his performance, the dedication to the Earl of Norwich was directly levelled against the poet-laureate who termed it the “most arrogant, calumniatory, ill-mannered, and senseless preface he ever saw.” [ The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
- When Winston Churchill visited Bletchley during the war to make a speech to the codebreakers, he thought they were ill-dressed, ill-mannered and eccentric.
- The British are considered ill-mannered, badly dressed and unsophisticated.
- It was quite rude and ill-mannered of you to make them wait on you.