How To Use Mannerly In A Sentence
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A more self-assured, unfailingly polite and mannerly man never existed.
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Chase is weird… that would be impolite… unmannerly.
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He looks sexy. But still, he is mannerly as usual.
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Trying to approach this gentle and mannerly retired professor about what seems to be going wrong, Miller encounters the deep stubbornness at the core of his being.
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Yet, the possibility always remains that the signifying capabilities of the tongue, and, more generally, the body will exceed the narrow scope of its assignment, becoming rude, unmannerly, undisciplined, and uncivilized.
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These have led to some perilous moments, especially when the public's unmannerly curiosity about the nitty-gritty collides with radio phone-ins.
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It's a mean competition, too - one that can turn sensible, mannerly, child-loving parents and educators into hard, calculating, and paranoid operators.
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By not allowing Anthony Mascheck undisturbed sharing of his point of view as a former military man, the group demonstrated their disinterest in engaging in a mannerly debate and exposed their true desire to provoke and instigate.
Marco Reininger: ROTC at Columbia University: Regarding the Heckling of a Veteran
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And I felt angry for a moment, I thought, how unmannerly, how unlike me or him, to come equipped with an accessory I would never have dreamed of possessing.
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It's ignorant and unmannerly to engage in this practice.
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Your city-mannerly word forsooth, use it not too often in any case.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S.
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He finds the English more mannerly, less effusive than the Italians.
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He belonged to a time that was past in that he was gentle of speech, mannerly, concerned about the impressions he might convey.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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To your English upper class, industry and trade are symbols of gross Philistinism, boring crassness, unmannerly usury, unacceptable.
GOTHIC PURSUIT
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One is reminded of the unmannerly exclamation, sometimes attributed to C.S. Lewis, that interrupted one of Tolkien's readings of "The Lord of the Rings" to his Oxford colleagues: "Oh no, not another f---ing elf!
Writers at Work, Seeking a Spark
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I only knew their names because I heard Aunt Caren tell them to be mannerly.
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It's also good to finally meet a guardian as mannerly as you are.
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It's ignorant and unmannerly to engage in this practice.
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These fine young gentleman were well-behaved and very mannerly.
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He's kvetching about how all his work for the Irish Republic has earned him only ‘the daily spite of this unmannerly town’ and Maud Gonne reproves him.
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Honey, the local learning facility is filled with students like those horrible unmannerly children in that establishment I sent you to.
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Like ither menseless graceless brutes. [unmannerly] 'An neist my yowie, silly thing, [next]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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He belonged to a time that was past in that he was gentle of speech, mannerly, concerned about the impressions he might convey.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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Eating fast may not be mannerly, but it's essential.
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But Lily was a "mannerly" member of good society, if her circle was small, and she was not to be taken back by any compliment
The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906.
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The students deported themselves in a mannerly way.
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No… your highness, it will be unmannerly to stop the dance suddenly.
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I think, certainly before Irish independence, he found London a far more engaging and stimulating city than he found the daily spite of the unmannerly town that was Dublin.
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They committed themselves to elaborate codes of behavior that included respect for women and a certain mannerly decorum.
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I was swiftly scolded for my tone: “unbusinesslike, unmannerly, and just plain unaesthetic.”
Scents & Sensibility
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That unfriendly, unbrotherly, unneighbourly, as well as rash and unmannerly, Spurning of the Execution, and then sending it to
John Adams diary 7, 21 March - 18 October 1761
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To your English upper class, industry and trade are symbols of gross Philistinism, boring crassness, unmannerly usury, unacceptable.
GOTHIC PURSUIT
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He was mannerly to her but only because he would suffer ramifications from his father if he were not.
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Schafer continues: ‘At the time I was among those shocked by my colleague's unmannerly attitude, which seemed so egregious that Time picked up his argument in its next issue.’
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He is perfectly mannerly, but has the air of a man who expects, and receives, deference.
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If we remember to praise him for thinking, we help him to be a mannerly dog on his own and not just a robot.
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The chairman would like to thank all who attended and behaved in a mannerly fashion.
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He seemed so mannerly at first, that you wouldn't believe the words coming out of his mouth just moments later.
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Promises he accounts but a kind of mannerly words, and in the expectation of your manners not to exact them: if you do, he wonders at your ill breeding, that cannot distinguish betwixt what is spoken and what is meant.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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Calm, mannerly, fond of bowties, Whitworth was a workaholic.
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He was said to be boorish and unmannerly and argumentative and moody and addicted to reading, of all things.
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UB's policy, with its Victorian-era requirement of "mannerly" conduct and expression at all times, instead requires students to walk on eggshells around one another to avoid being guilty of
FIRE - The Torch
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The start of the meeting was delayed by half-an-hour by the unmannerly opposition parties calling votes in the chamber of Dáil Éireann.
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Yet, the possibility always remains that the signifying capabilities of the tongue, and, more generally, the body will exceed the narrow scope of its assignment, becoming rude, unmannerly, undisciplined, and uncivilized.
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The other young people on the ship were friendly and mannerly.
THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
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He directs at a mannerly pace, building his themes methodically.
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She said that he carried himself well, behaved mannerly, and cried several times while the “details” of the allegations were diclosed in the trial.
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His manners - in an unmannerly age - were impeccable.
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She was very jittery, far more jittery than Lydie had ever seen the mannerly, dignified Anne Holden.
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He found the pupils to be very friendly, mannerly and confident young people.
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Not only does Hamlet appear more rational than the King and Queen suspect but he also seems quite willing to perform madness, thus meeting the expectations of his audience, in order to speak in an uncensored and unmannerly fashion.
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We believe that every family deserves to have a mannerly pet, a dog that doesn't jump up, pull on the leash or embarrass them out in public.
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But here at least there is little evidence of his unmannerly supporters.
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Now since the street in itself is quiet I can only assume that this is suburb lingo for unmannerly and they are probably the only folk who haven't come by to introduce themselves since we moved in.
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British Virgin Islanders place great importance on mannerly behavior.
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Cripple Creek's women were a definite part of the camp as they coped with dreary existences and provided their men with good homes and hard-working, mannerly children.
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The Swedish manager of the time was Ole Nordin and the unmannerly snub clearly still rankles as much as his omission.
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‘Most bankers are smart and mannerly, and they don't come in and hit you over the head,’ the executive observes.
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But Lily was a "mannerly" member of good society, if her circle was small, and she was not to be taken aback by any compliment a man should pay her.
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
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Her mother had told her it was the mannerly way to do it.
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The other young people on the ship were friendly and mannerly.
THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
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The full details of her unmannerly treatment of colleagues, and in particular of Geoffrey Howe, are almost painful to read.
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The central thesis was simple: mannerly behaviour is a barometer of civilisation.
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‘Thanks in advance Dale,’ the Cat chirped before diving into the menu, but not without adding, ‘Not like a certain other unmannerly dog here.’
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The self-promotional nature of much academic politics and competition is unmannerly.
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Like ither menseless graceless brutes. [unmannerly] 'An neist my yowie, silly thing, [next]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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MIÉVILLE concludes his article in a lenient, mannerly way: There are plenty of other reasons to be grateful to Tolkien, of course -- and reasonable reasons to be ticked off at him, too: critique, after all has its place.
China Miéville on J.R.R. Tolkien
