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By the time she delivers Georgina’s now famous, “No, no, no, no, no, no …” Ms. Gabriel has tipped the part’s tremulous, robotic mannerliness into malfunctioning mannerism.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2017

Mrs. Prada found it all at once enchanting and stultifying, and she still battles with the residue of mannerliness it left her with.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2015

But Peyton, whose mannerliness is lit by lightning flashes of rage, is something more than that.

From Time Magazine Archive

No blood, no sweat, no tears ever smudge the neat laundering of Acheson's sentences, or the mannerliness of his theories.

From Time Magazine Archive

The uncompromising directness of these brats, their gross ill- mannerliness, was a matter of which Bob made constant complaint to his mother.

From Once Aboard the Lugger by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)