[
UK
/ʌnmˈænəli/
]
ADJECTIVE
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socially incorrect in behavior
resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion
How To Use unmannerly In A Sentence
- Chase is weird… that would be impolite… unmannerly.
- 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.
- These have led to some perilous moments, especially when the public's unmannerly curiosity about the nitty-gritty collides with radio phone-ins.
- 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.
- It's ignorant and unmannerly to engage in this practice.
- To your English upper class, industry and trade are symbols of gross Philistinism, boring crassness, unmannerly usury, unacceptable. GOTHIC PURSUIT
- 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
- It's ignorant and unmannerly to engage in this practice.
- 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.
- Honey, the local learning facility is filled with students like those horrible unmannerly children in that establishment I sent you to.