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

Keep that in mind in daily interactions, and good manners will naturally follow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 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

Those three words are repeated again and again by parents trying to teach their young sons and daughters good manners, whether it’s at the dinner table, the amusement park or the ice cream shop.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025

He obviously had good manners and assumed that I wished to converse with Elizabeth.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson