ill-mannered

Example Sentences

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The accompanying photo portraits are mostly hideous, in Ms. Wiles’s case also ill-mannered and unkind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

He is especially winning when he barely skirts the sentimental or ill-mannered.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

Writing on Instagram on Thursday, singer Sir Rod Stewart described Wallace as an "ill-mannered bully", and said the presenter "humiliated" his wife when she was on MasterChef in 2021.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

Harrison plays Rex, a coarse, ill-mannered layabout with a bleach-blonde bouffant hairdo.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022

I too find it hard to believe there is a connection across time and space, linking me to a race of ill-mannered clowns.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate