MANNERED in a Sentence

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The captive Abbot's features and manners exhibited a whimsical mixture of offended pride, and deranged foppery and bodily terror.

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 Meanings and Examples of MANNERED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mannered
 a.  artificial or affected; not natural; having or showing a certain manner
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She had put Savannah and its memories behind her when she left that gently mannered city by the sea, and, from the moment of her arrival in the County, north Georgia was her home.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  The news of their engagement came like an explosion, unexpected and shattering, rocking the town, and even the mildest- mannered women spoke their minds heatedly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
3  But they were all well mannered, beautifully tailored, and they evidently admired her, so it mattered little to Scarlett that they chose to live utterly in the present.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
4  She even went out of her way to be bad mannered to them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
5  After a while they forgot that they had objected to him for he was quiet and well mannered and actually knew something about banking and investments.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
6  People had said he was brutal and sneering and bad mannered and even dishonest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
7  His manners towards the maid-servants were disgustingly free and familiar.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
8  Over thought and religion; drink; dress; manners; marriage too, I wield my truncheon.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
9  She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
10  However, though I am not influenced by manners and station, Loo Bounderby may be.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
11  I also, and the noble Athelstane of Coningsburgh, speak only the language, and practise only the manners, of our fathers.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  His conduct, however, was an exception to the general manners of his countrymen.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  And while their manners were thus the subject of sarcastic observation, the untaught Saxons unwittingly transgressed several of the arbitrary rules established for the regulation of society.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
14  And here we cannot but think it necessary to offer some better proof than the incidents of an idle tale, to vindicate the melancholy representation of manners which has been just laid before the reader.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  The captive Abbot's features and manners exhibited a whimsical mixture of offended pride, and deranged foppery and bodily terror.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
Example Sentence: (87 in 6 pages)
16  The new nanny's winning manners captivate Bart and Lisa.
17  Everyone liked Nancy's pleasant manners and engaging personality.
18  Sir William had the ability to conduct proceedings in a dignified manner without ever becoming stuffy.
19  This activity was carried on in a businesslike manner.
20  Clinton was praised on all sides for his warm manner and diplomatic approach.
21  When people put on uniforms, their attitude becomes more confident and their manner more officious.
22  An attorney is your employee, in a manner of speaking.
23  She was a tough girl with rather an abrasive manner.
24  It was barbarous to treat prisoners in that manner.
25  A man, like a watch, is to be valued by his manner of going.
26  A man's own manner and character is what most becomes.
27  In the army camp the quilts are usually folded in this manner.
28  Her pleasant manner belied her true character.
29  Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
30  Check that the equipment is operating in a safe manner.