polished manners
Example Sentences
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Von Bülow, trained as a lawyer, had polished manners and, as a result of his marriage, a vast fortune.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 29, 2019
Sometimes educating their sons in England, planters used impressive houses, the finest furnishings, elaborate entertainments, and polished manners to display their wealth and claim superior status.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
He was suave, with polished manners and a steady supply of spending money.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2015
Bulganin never bellows or uses foul language, as his old friend Kaganovich does; he has polished manners, clean fingernails, and never spills his soup, as Stalin used to do.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Rodney was naturally of a slender form with an animated countenance, easy and polished manners and very agreeable and gentlemanly in his intercourse.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
