ill-mannered

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The accompanying photo portraits are mostly hideous, in Ms. Wiles’s case also ill-mannered and unkind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025

Writing on Instagram in November, singer Sir Rod Stewart described Wallace as an "ill-mannered bully", and said the presenter "humiliated" his wife Penny Lancaster when she was on Masterchef in 2021.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025

Do I honor their request, even if it feels ill-mannered?

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2023

Cree artist William Kent Monkman reimagined the “discovery of America” with oddly dressed, ill-mannered, and greedy invaders.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz