Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or showing good manners. synonym: polite.
- adverb With good manners; politely.
from The Century Dictionary.
- + -ly.] Showing good manners; well-behaved; civil; respectful; complaisant; not rude or vulgar.
- Synonyms Courteous, polite, gentlemanly.
- With good manners or civility; respectfully; without rudeness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant.
- adverb With good manners.
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- adjective
polite , having goodmanners
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective socially correct in behavior
Etymologies
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Examples
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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 John Earle
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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. Various 1904
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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 Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886
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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 2009
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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 Marco Reininger 2011
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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 Marco Reininger 2011
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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.
This week's cover: An exclusive first look at the new Michael Jackson movie | EW.com 2009
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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 Marco Reininger 2011
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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.
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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.
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