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Bad manners   /bæd mˈænərz/   Listen
Bad manners

noun
1.
Impoliteness resulting from ignorance.  Synonym: ill-breeding.






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"Bad manners" Quotes from Famous Books



... out the lady, addressing her brother, "don't you agree with me that it is very bad manners on the part of the boys to come to supper without so much as washing their hands or brushing their hair? Ought they not to put on evening clothes now that they are almost assuming ...
— Wild Kitty • L. T. Meade

... A growl against his bad manners rose straightway; and the minstrel, who (as often happened in those days) was jester likewise, made merry at his expense, and advised the company to turn the wild ...
— Hereward, The Last of the English • Charles Kingsley

... he bellowed. "Let these guards pass." With that, he almost hurled a gaily-dressed gentleman aside on either hand; they both turned to glare angrily, then got hastily out of his way. Meditating briefly on the uses of bad manners in an emergency, Trask followed, with the others; the big Space Viking plowed to the front, where Sesar Karvall and Rovard Grauffis and several others ...
— Space Viking • Henry Beam Piper

... I forgive your bad manners. I proceed in the true Christian spirit with my scheme. The middle house in the Upper Glen belongs, as you know well, to the great Duke of Ardshiel. It is sometimes called Ardshiel, but more often by the title The Palace ...
— Hollyhock - A Spirit of Mischief • L. T. Meade

... me to a dinner. Later Dutzman came and brought a smirking girl with him. Nothing very interesting. A girl. She sang gypsy songs accompanied by a guitar. Good voice—and bad manners. We had champagne, ...
— Rescuing the Czar - Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated • James P. Smythe


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