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ill-mannered

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  1. 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.
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