bad-mannered
Example Sentences
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I hope any restructuring maintains the bad-mannered airline poking the others in the eye.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2024
Richard M. Nixon complained in a 1971 memo that, at his first news conference after that year’s dinner, “where I played the ‘good sport role,’ the reporters were considerably more bad-mannered and vicious than usual.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2023
Olivia Colman’s performance as the unstable, self-pitying and hilariously bad-mannered Queen Anne won her Bafta award success on Sunday evening – one of seven awards for the 18th-century comedy The Favourite.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2019
There is something intrinsically bad-mannered about dangling delectable schmattas in front of our eyeballs while simultaneously withholding the most critical info: the price.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2014
It was very bad-mannered—very bad-mannered indeed—to tell a badger to stop badgering.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
