mannered

“Rails” and “lacerate,” two other words swiftly elected for pillory, were classic Tejpal, overblown, mannered, theatrical.

Where Kate is mild-mannered and middle-class, Cressy, 24, is a wild, blue-blooded aristocrat with bohemian heritage.

I cannot say how this affected others, but to me it seemed hardly more ill-mannered than impolitic.

He was a mild-mannered man, tall, rather pale, with refined features and a low-toned pleasant voice.

We learned this in conversation with a sweet-faced, quiet-mannered lady who had all the Quaker characteristics.

Every action of the doctor had been noted, and information of it conveyed to the quiet-mannered man in pince-nez.

They would starve on the skin of the Scotch men and are too well-mannered to attack that of the Scotch ladies.