Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Deficient in manners; ill-behaved.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective lacking good manners; impolite; ill-bred
  • adjective clumsy; graceless

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Examples

  • Ask yourself this question, can you even imagine that kind of mannerless, undiplomatic, insulting discourteousness from Barack Obama?

    Michael Seitzman: Barack Obama and the Return of Grace 2008

  • Way to make me feel like a mannerless glutton, I thought dismally.

    Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011

  • Way to make me feel like a mannerless glutton, I thought dismally.

    Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011

  • It wasn't just this mannerless creep, there were Republicans texting throughout the speech and waving papers at President Obama.

    Wilson calls White House to apologize 2009

  • An assault by a horribly rude and mannerless vampire sets the stage for the adventures to come.

    Review: Soulless by Gail Carriger Neth 2010

  • An assault by a horribly rude and mannerless vampire sets the stage for the adventures to come.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Neth 2010

  • I had to sit down then, and this Joe said: "Ask permission before you sit, you mannerless young swine," so I cracked back skorry with a "Shut your dirty big fat hole, you," feeling sick.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  •   She said, no prince would want to marry such a mannerless ugly wild princess.

    Mirror Mirror 2009

  • It seemed rather... mannerless when responding to someone who was not a faceless slush-puppy.

    Overzealous Is Your Middle Name (Which Makes You Just Like Most Authors) Editorial Anonymous 2009

  • When I reached home I was a terrible mess from head to toe, specially the head where some overzealous , a few mannerless volunteers of Lalbagh Cha Raja had thrown gulal on my lens and camera and on my person in spite of telling them to stop..their answer to me was Chill Man..

    Archive 2009-09-01 photographerno1 2009

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