good-manners

Although I only lost one of my anytime minutes, this is still pretty obnoxious behavior, and I'd consider it obviously just from a good-manners perspective misuse of customers' phone numbers.

Domino's, Feel Free Not To Robocall Me - The Consumerist 2010

"She has certainly authority in this field," says Guo Xiaoyan, a spokeswoman for the Beijing's Capital Ethics Development Office, which runs good-manners campaigns.

China's 'Miss Manners' Trained a City to Host the World 2008

Third, as I have described here, the argument that “the group prefers to be called X, so you have a good-manners obligation to call it that” is not enough of an argument in my book — even if there is adequate evidence that the group prefers that.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Word I Will Gladly Continue To Use: 2007

Old William moved uneasily in the large chair, and with a minute smile on the mere edge of his lips, for good-manners, said he was indeed very fond of tunes.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

To make the tour of the garden afterwards with the letter in her pocket, and to gather flowers for a bouquet for the tea-table, while tea was actually ready and everybody was awaiting her, was at once a necessity, an hypocrisy, and a dreadful breach of good-manners.

Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray

-- That term implies all that good-manners ought to be.

Life and Conduct J. Cameron Lees

This kind of good-manners was perhaps carried to an excess, so as to make conversation too stiff, formal, and precise: For which reason (as hypocrisy in one age is generally succeeded by atheism in another) conversation is in a great measure relapsed into the first extreme; so that at present several of our men of the town, and particularly those who have been polished in

The Coverley Papers Various

For he must naturally detest whatever is insipid, disgusting, or invernacular; while he considers a correctness and propriety of language as the religion, and good-manners of an Orator: -- and every one who pretends to speak in public should adopt the same opinion.

Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero

"We heard said your lordship was going away," put in a stout mother with a heavy child on her arm, a slight testiness scarcely concealed by respectful good-manners.

The Shuttle 1907

"We heard said your lordship was going away," put in a stout mother with a heavy child on her arm, a slight testiness scarcely concealed by respectful good-manners.

The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886