ill-mannered
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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
Customer > Cupstomper: An ill-mannered Starbucks patron who throws a tanty when mistakenly served a latte instead of a mocha.
From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2022
Harrison plays Rex, a coarse, ill-mannered layabout with a bleach-blonde bouffant hairdo.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
Cree artist William Kent Monkman reimagined the “discovery of America” with oddly dressed, ill-mannered, and greedy invaders.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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