manner
IPA: mˈænɝ
noun
- Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything
- Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing
- One's customary method of acting; habit.
- Good, polite behaviour.
- The style of writing or thought of an author; the characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
- A certain degree or measure.
- Sort; kind; style.
- Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.
- A surname.
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Examples of "manner" in Sentences
- She spoke in a dulcet manner.
- He is extremely well mannered.
- She retorted in a cold manner.
- The people equivocated the manners.
- He has the mannerisms of a teenager.
- But his mannerisms subsume the performance.
- His manner of speech was not an affectation.
- A dispensary is supported in the usual manner.
- It illustrates the style and manner of the comic.
- It is humiliating to speak in the deprecatory manner.
- To try to blame the difficulty away in this manner is a transparently empty dodge.
- "To help end the streak by contributing in this manner is a huge lift for me," Person said.
- Voting against a person who conducts him or herself in such a manner is absolutely justified.
- [text in the screen at this time reads: 'the iron triangle'] One of the companies that operates in this manner is the Carlyle Group.
- While the speech was breathtaking and inspirational, withholding such information in this manner is the same, in my opionion, as lying.
- In the later edition, he takes occasion to say, in this connection, 'that as writing in the received manner no way obstructs the _manner of pronunciation_, but leaves that _free_, an innovation in it is of no purpose.'
- "Well, you see," expounded John, unruffled, "as an adorer of the sex, and heir to a peerage, I shouldn't want to marry a woman unless I could support her in what they call a manner becoming her rank -- and I couldn't."
- To be challenged in such a manner is an irresistible red flag to men like this, and certainly no less of one because the challenger was a rude, loud, irreverent braggart who had never been victorious in actual air-to-air combat.
- The quoit formerly ufed by the Gre - cians was made of (tones, brafsor iron, which they threw by the help of a thong, put through a hole in the middle of it, but in a manner entirely different from that in which they threw the dart: then 'the hands were lifted, up and extended, whereas the difcus was hurled in the manner* of a bowl.
- For [6] when the ten Tribes were captivated, a Priest or the captivity was sent back to _Bethel_, by order of the King of _Assyria_, to instruct the new inhabitants of _Samaria_, in _the manner of the God of the land_; and the _Samaritans_ had the _Pentateuch_ from this Priest, as containing the law or _manner of the God of the land_, which he was to teach them.