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He is especially winning when he barely skirts the sentimental or ill-mannered.
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“Not that I’m boasting, mind you! That would be ill-mannered.”
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Surely it was the admiral’s problem if his ostrich was so ill-mannered that it ran away without so much as a by-your-leave?
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Ferrigan said that a local official’s choice not to lower flags after a president’s executive directive might be seen as somewhat ill-mannered but wouldn’t be breaking any rules.
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“There’s a certain undertone of ‘good riddance’ when kooks like these are vaporized by the earth’s latest ill-mannered guests.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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