You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. From LearnThat.org. [Lillian Gish]
He has the manners of a pig. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : to be taken with the mainour. From Dictionary.com.
I actually think the decline in manners is more worrisome, because a lot of moral behavior is grounded in good manners. From Wordnik.com. [The usually even-tempered ...] Reference
She has just which I call the manners a young lady ought to have. '. From Wordnik.com. [A Red Wallflower] Reference
Trying to insist on my parochial conception of "manners" is actually pretty bizarre. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in State-Sponsored Autism] Reference
The uniform stability of their manners is the natural consequence of the imperfection of their faculties. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Republicans badly need a lesson in manners and class. From Wordnik.com. [Obama accepts apology] Reference
His manners is terrible, but he's gey fond of ogle-pogles. From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
"He doesn't get his manners from the Germans," snapped Elsa. From Wordnik.com. [The Forbidden Trail] Reference
I think Wilson needs lessons in manners, respect and tolerance. From Wordnik.com. [Heckler Wilson 'a decent guy' with lock on district, observers say] Reference
Joe Wilson – more bad manners from the folks in South Carolina!. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson calls White House to apologize] Reference
'I suppose that covers all her shortcomings in manners,' I retorted. From Wordnik.com. [Rilla of Ingleside] Reference
An English boy wrote on: the elephant -- a study in manners and protocol. From Wordnik.com. [Sleeping with the Elephant] Reference
A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than a riot. From Wordnik.com. [» Is it Friday for America? heinleinblog] Reference
Torturers are barbarians, and teaching them table manners is not really the point. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: "The Idea of Doing Nothing"] Reference
And, in fact, behind Mansueto's quiet Midwestern manners is one of the nation's boldest entrepreneurs. From Wordnik.com. [Morningstar CEO took risks to go far] Reference
The silver-haired Virginian with courtly manners is a throwback to a forgotten era of congressional comity. From Wordnik.com. [May 2004] Reference
BUT a RARE compliment for Bruce Gorton – your exhibition of good manners is refreshingly unique at this site. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Bush on Ken Lay: He Was ‘A Good Guy’] Reference
But one of my favourite examples of bizarre table manners is the one where the host of the party doesn't eat anything. From Wordnik.com. [The Rituals of Dinner] Reference
People shook their heads sometimes at his ideas, even while they owned that the boys improved wonderfully in manners and morals. From Wordnik.com. [Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys] Reference
Sure, Eisenberg wasn't exactly charismatic, but he was very smart, and what he lacked in manners, he made up for with wit ... and honesty. From Wordnik.com. [Zach Weisberg: Seeking Truth in The Social Network] Reference
To drop "the veil of chivalrous manners" is to reveal the basis of social relations "on property and privilege, on wealth and rank" (421). From Wordnik.com. [Boxing Emma; or the Readers Dilemma at the Box Hill Games] Reference
Crawford taught "manners" -- a feature of backwoods education to which. From Wordnik.com. [The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him] Reference
"Blest if I know what you call manners, but to throw things at a lady is. From Wordnik.com. [Cleek, the Master Detective] Reference
If that's what she calls manners, I shouldn't like her to take my girls about. ". From Wordnik.com. [Rachel Ray, volume 2] Reference
If that’s what she calls manners, I shouldn’t like her to take my girls about.”. From Wordnik.com. [Rachel Ray] Reference
A degrading innovation in English manners, must be taught their error. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference
Surely his manners were the least ingratiating Esther had ever known in. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
The manners will be the expression of gentleness, mingled with firmness. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Maiden] Reference
His manners were a shade too gentlemanly to be quite those of a gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [A Miscellany of Men] Reference
"Why, I should call her manners mighty comfortable ones," returned the young man. From Wordnik.com. [The Opened Shutters] Reference
Of all the race with whom I have communicated, his manners were the most pleasing. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
But your ideas and your feelings are like your manners, that is what I cannot endure. From Wordnik.com. [Mauprat] Reference
I persuaded myself that her manners were the effect of habit -- the triumph of one pre-eminent in attraction. '. From Wordnik.com. [Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife] Reference
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