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mannered

adjective C2
  1. Having manners or (often excessive) mannerisms. · His upbringing had led him to act in an overly mannered way.· ill-mannered.
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That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 20 · B2
I’m nearly as impolite and disagreeable and ill-mannered as these two old Knickerbocker gents on each side of me that can’t sleep of nights because I bought in between ’em.”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 9 · C1
Was there ever a more mild-mannered, Sunday-school young man?”
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 54 · C1
“Dear me!” said Holmes, “he seems a quiet, meek-mannered man enough, but I dare say that there was a lurking devil in his eyes.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 177 · C1

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