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
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
Mason called her “the most selfish, ill-mannered, inconsiderate actress that I’ve ever had the displeasure of working with,” according to a report in Newsweek.
From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2023
But they were shut out, listening at a door to words not meant for them: ill-mannered children or stupid servants overhearing the elusive discourse of their elders, and wondering how it would affect their lot.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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