unmannerly

IPA: ʌnmˈænɝɫi

adjective

  • (also figuratively) Not mannerly (“polite; having good manners”).

adverb

  • (archaic) In a way that is not mannerly; discourteously, rudely.
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Examples of "unmannerly" in Sentences

  • Of all unmannerly craft did you ever see the like?
  • Also because it would be a very unmannerly thread-jacking.
  • He judged she recalled his unmannerly eavesdropping that afternoon.
  • Yet we need just such critics, unmannerly or annoying as they might be.
  • In fact, being unmannerly or annoying is an essential part of the package.
  • I am rude and unmannerly and I say many things out of turn which I realize afterwards must have hurt someone.
  • I laid peculiar stress, by way of accent, on the word "unmannerly," and in a moment I saw the field was in my hands.
  • And college men — not usually known for their debonair ways — can be particularly unmannerly when the numbers are in their favor.
  • One is reminded of the unmannerly exclamation, sometimes attributed to C.S. Lewis, that interrupted one of Tolkien's readings of "The Lord of the Rings" to his Oxford colleagues: "Oh no, not another f---ing elf!"

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