manners
Example Sentences
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The popularity of “Don Quixote” reflected the taste for light-hearted inspection of character and manners common to readers in the 18th century.
But he says the problem is pervasive: “The number of people who don’t conform to the most elementary manners has grown, and they become aggressive if you ask them to change.”
To Ray’s stoic exterior, Colin’s good manners are like pebbles bouncing off a marble god.
“On a personal level, to say, ‘I want, I want, I want,’ people may feel that, but we are taught that good manners is to suppress such immodest cravings.”
He ate carefully, as if minding his table manners.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
