mannerless

Example Sentences

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Should you find that “Please don’t touch my baby” isn’t cutting the mustard with the mannerless hyenas of the world, it is appropriate to say, “He’s got hand-foot-and-mouth disease. It’s hugely contagious.”

From Slate • May 11, 2018

Because the sheltered and mannerless Shan is nothing like the gold diggers surrounding Liu, he quickly becomes smitten.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2016

Joyce Davis Tyree Centerport, N. Y. The mannerless youth of the '60s and '70s have unfortunately passed their poor behavior on to their offspring.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was mannerless, unkempt, and one wonders if he was not unwashed, in those days of the weekly bath in the foot tub, if a bath was taken at all.

From Time Magazine Archive

So you can understand bow Galahad may have seemed inhuman, and mannerless, and so on, to the people who were buzzing and clacking about him.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White