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
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
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 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
The dedication to its two earliest critics read: "To those good-mannered and agreeable children, Susy and Clara Clemens."
From The Boys' Life of Mark Twain by Paine, Albert Bigelow
