good manners
Example Sentences
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If parents only left money to well-behaved adult children with a pristine record of good manners and fiscal responsibility, most pet shelters would probably never have to raise funds again.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 2026
To Ray’s stoic exterior, Colin’s good manners are like pebbles bouncing off a marble god.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
It’s not like those good manners and contrived niceties ever managed to paper over those divisions in the first place.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025
Those three words are repeated again and again by parents trying to teach their young sons and daughters good manners, whether it’s at the dinner table, the amusement park or the ice cream shop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2025
The next day my mother received hand-delivered thank-you letters from our guests and left them out on the dining table to serve as a lesson in good manners to us.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
