Manners
['mænəz]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Morals, habits, carriage, behavior, deportment, bearing, breeding, air, customary conduct.
Checker: Peggy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Deportment, behavior, carriage, courtesy, politeness, intercourse, demeanor
ANT:Misdemeanor, misbehavior, unmannerliness
Typist: Pansy
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing ugly-mannered persons, denotes failure to carry out undertakings through the disagreeableness of a person connected with the affair. If you meet people with affable manners, you will be pleasantly surprised by affairs of moment with you taking a favorable turn.
Checked by Aubrey
Unserious Contents or Definition
A difficult symphony in the key of B natural.
Typist: Marietta
Examples
- Why, the breeches-maker, said Bob Manners, speaking very slow. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I join to it the conception of a particular government, and religion, and manners. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The gal's manners is dreadful vulgar; and the boy breathes so very hard while he's eating, that we found it impossible to sit at table with him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Those who are showing the world what female manners _should_ be, said Mr. Bertram gallantly, are doing a great deal to set them right. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- This second cousin was a Middlemarch mercer of polite manners and superfluous aspirates. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mrs. Weston's manners, said Emma, were always particularly good. Jane Austen. Emma.
- You must have been aware, continued Sir Thomas presently, you must have been some time aware of a particularity in Mr. Crawford's manners to you. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Then, her understanding was beyond every suspicion, quick and clear; and her manners were the mirror of her own modest and elegant mind. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- His manners were perfect, and his courtliness was that of a typical southern gentleman of the highest type. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The old parsons is worth the whole lump of college lads; they know what belongs to good manners, and is kind to high and low. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I put good manners first, and Miss Garth will know how to conduct herself in any station. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Certainly his manners seemed more disagreeable by the morning light. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I like your nice manners and refined ways of speaking, when you don't try to be elegant. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Indeed, I never thought about myself or him, so my manners must have shown the truth. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I was soon introduced into the presence of the magistrate, an old benevolent man, with calm and mild manners. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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