This position is often filled by well-mannered and well-educated young women, who are the daughters of poor men, and obliged to earn their own living.
All eyes were turned to the entrance as Stephen spoke, and the ancient-mannered conclave scrutinized him inquiringly.
He was still utterly at a loss to account for this well-mannered girl's queer environment.
The propriety of such an act was most questionable, and no well mannered rats would have allowed themselves to become a party to such a raid.
Have you ever been ill-mannered enough to watch the birds going to bed?
Evidently these birds are shyer of the rigorous Ohio winters than of the more mild-mannered Kansas weather.
Were there ever such pesky, ill-mannered citizens as the English sparrows?
You are a very ill-mannered child," she said, and putting her aside walked slowly up the path and around the house to where Esther sat on the back porch.
Yet in Coombe it was distinctly bad manneredto leave hurriedly, after a meal.
I am sorry that there are bad-mannered Germans in the hotel.
She was no longer the laughing, simple-mannered child of Faraway, whose heart was as one's hand before him in the daylight.
But it did seem very wonderful to us, then, with its fine-mannered servants, its flowers, its abundant silver.
He thought "the two finest mannered literary men he met in England were Leigh Hunt and De Quincey.
A curious way of characterizing himself as a critic,--but he was not always as well-mannered as the Houyhnhnms.
I talked of ill manners, being angry and hurt just now; but 'tis doubly ill-mannered of me to show my anger, and boast about my prowess to my own host and kinsman.
The well-mannered man pays a compliment to another, and sometimes even secures his respect by patiently listening to him.
Lying on his back and staring up at the slow clouds, he was glad he had refused to attend Maurice's mannered breakfast.
I was very pleased to find I'd evidently struck a nice-mannered lunatic," said Barnes.
He had refused Maurice's invitation to a somewhat mannered breakfast-party at Sandford Lasher, though when he saw the almost defiantly jolly party ride off on bicycles from the lodge, he was inclined to regret his refusal.
Both these Shammar were exceedingly intelligent well mannered men, with souls above money.
The eldest of these Ibn Duala, a man of sixty, is very well-mannered and amiable.
The well-mannered person is known by his or her calm conduct and gentle manners whether it be in the ballroom or at the football game.
Like the well-mannered child she was, Pollyooly dropped a curtsey.
On the threshold, like the well-mannered child she was, she paused to thank him again.
She was indeed very civil to them, like the well-mannered child she was; but they did not greatly attract her.
She was a well-mannered child, and careful of the feelings of a host.
Mrs. Grant was as kindly mannered as the General himself.
Now this reminded the mild-mannered old mule of his own youthful prowess as a kicker.
The origin, or better the derivation, of manners is no doubt, to be sought elsewhere than in a conscious effort on the part of the well-mannered to show that much time has been spent in acquiring them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mannered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
