bad manners

Example Sentences

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Leaving a party without saying goodbye may not be bad manners at all.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

The executor’s actions are bad manners, at best, or a willful abandoning of her fiduciary duty, at worst.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 23, 2025

"I applied for the Aberdeen job once and didn't even get a reply, which I thought was really bad manners," Neil Warnock told the BBC podcast Sacked in the Morning in November.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2024

"With common sense you can distinguish what is rude or bad manners from what is a crime," Vox said on X, formerly Twitter.

From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2023

Everyone, even my mother, stared at her for her bad manners, criticizing a servant that way.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan