well-mannered
polite; courteous.
Origin of well-mannered
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How to use well-mannered in a sentence
Their phones do work, and are operated by a disarmingly well-mannered host or hostess.
Inside London’s Hottest Celebrity Haunt—But How Long Will Chiltern Firehouse Burn? | Lizzie Crocker | June 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs a well-mannered gentleman, he let her go in front of him and speak first.
Ilya Yashin & Ksenia Sobchak, the Russian Opposition’s Romeo & Juliet | Anna Nemtsova | December 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTShe was a smiling, confident girl, well-mannered but by no means shy.
Pakistan: The Schoolgirl the Taliban Tried to Kill | Sami Yousafzai | October 9, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn one corner: the patrician, privileged, well-mannered 35-year-old Quayle.
The trio of exceedingly well-mannered, well-heeled young men were brought upstairs, and they were interviewed separately.
Former Cop Edward Conlon on What He Learned About Profiling | Edward Conlon | April 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
They would starve on the skin of the Scotch men and are too well-mannered to attack that of the Scotch ladies.
Friend Mac Donald | Max O'RellNancy made good her promise, and Newport society threw wide its doors to the good-looking and well-mannered visitor.
The Terms of Surrender | Louis TracyDe Gollyer, approaching at last the great question, assumed an air of concentrated firmness, tempered with well-mannered delicacy.
Murder in Any Degree | Owen JohnsonM. d'Ablaincourt was an egotist; but, at the same time, a well-bred, a well-mannered egotist.
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II | VariousShe was a well-mannered, commonplace Frenchwoman, rather colourless and uninteresting.
Memoirs of an American Prima Donna | Clara Louise Kellogg
British Dictionary definitions for well-mannered
having good manners; courteous; polite
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