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
That’s 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
Would it be bad manners to ask Perilee if she lived in such a shack?
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
