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MANNERS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Social deportment
Example:
he has the manners of a pig
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("manners" is a kind of...):
behavior; behaviour; conduct; demeanor; demeanour; deportment ((behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Context examples:
I’ll learn you manners, Joe, which is more than ever your father did.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Surely, sir, said Alleyne, speaking in as persuasive and soothing a way as he could, if your birth is gentle, there is the more reason that your manners should be gentle too.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I may have a conviction, Mr. Copperfield, that Mr. Micawber's manners peculiarly qualify him for the Banking business.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
His manners, I think, you said are not to your taste? —priggish and parsonic?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
His pleasing manners and good sense were self-evident recommendations; and having never heard evil of him, it was not their way to suppose any evil could be told.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy: but her manners were excellent.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He spoke perfect English, was pleasing in his manners, and as good-looking a man as ever I saw in my life.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This prince took a pleasure in conversing with me, inquiring into the manners, religion, laws, government, and learning of Europe; wherein I gave him the best account I was able.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no active enemies.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In appearance he was a man of exceedingly aristocratic type, thin, high-nosed, and large-eyed, with languid and yet courtly manners.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
