good manners
Example Sentences
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If parents only left money to well-behaved adult children with a pristine record of good manners and fiscal responsibility, most pet shelters would probably never have to raise funds again.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026
To Ray’s stoic exterior, Colin’s good manners are like pebbles bouncing off a marble god.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
Rampling crackles as a matriarch who can sniff out her kids’ lies and insecurities but has the good manners not to say anything.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025
It’s not like those good manners and contrived niceties ever managed to paper over those divisions in the first place.
From Slate • Nov. 19, 2025
Some of you may say it is not good manners to be removing such things from one's chest at the dinner table.'
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
