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

Ferrigan said that a local official’s choice not to lower flags after a president’s executive directive might be seen as somewhat ill-mannered but wouldn’t be breaking any rules.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 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

Harrison plays Rex, a coarse, ill-mannered layabout with a bleach-blonde bouffant hairdo.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022

Surely it was the admiral’s problem if his ostrich was so ill-mannered that it ran away without so much as a by-your-leave?

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood