good-mannered
Example Sentences
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After two days, I was finding the National Review cruisers to be generally courteous and warm, old-fashioned and good-mannered, and responsive to good manners, too.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2014
What are any of us doing here--a flock of mad ducks flown north for the winter, descending noisily on this modest, good-mannered nation?
From Time Magazine Archive
The roaring was begun by the London Economist, a formidably good-mannered weekly which has no U.S. counterpart but might be described as a cross between the Wall Street Journal and a New Republic with muscles.*
From Time Magazine Archive
The Canadian and American girls would have loved to meet the Queen, but were too good-mannered, cool and dignified to fight their way through the mob.
From Time Magazine Archive
To this gratifying freedom, these comfortable exemptions, when they are once established in our belief, we adjust ourselves, and grow contentedly good-mannered.
From Bits about Home Matters by Jackson, Helen Hunt
