Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Ill-mannered; rude.
from The Century Dictionary.
- With ill manners; uncivilly; rudely.
- Not mannerly; wanting in manners; not having good manners; rude in behavior; ill-bred; uncivil.
- Not according to good manners: as, an unmannerly jest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a way that is not
mannerly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective socially incorrect in behavior
Etymologies
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Examples
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He judged she recalled his unmannerly eavesdropping that afternoon.
The Palace of Darkened Windows Mary Hastings Bradley
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I laid peculiar stress, by way of accent, on the word "unmannerly," and in a moment I saw the field was in my hands.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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Yet we need just such critics, unmannerly or annoying as they might be.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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In fact, being unmannerly or annoying is an essential part of the package.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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I am rude and unmannerly and I say many things out of turn which I realize afterwards must have hurt someone.
The Long Route To Windsor Ferdinand Mount 2011
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Of all unmannerly craft did you ever see the like?
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One is reminded of the unmannerly exclamation, sometimes attributed to C.S. Lewis, that interrupted one of Tolkien's readings of "The Lord of the Rings" to his Oxford colleagues: "Oh no, not another f---ing elf!"
Writers at Work, Seeking a Spark Elizabeth Lowry 2011
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And college men — not usually known for their debonair ways — can be particularly unmannerly when the numbers are in their favor.
Dating and Age 2010
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And college men — not usually known for their debonair ways — can be particularly unmannerly when the numbers are in their favor.
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Also because it would be a very unmannerly thread-jacking.
And “gender” is?… 2008
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