manners
Example Sentences
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So then Miss Kemp spent ten minutes talking about manners and hospitality, but I guess she figured Howard might be a pain in the neck too because she didn’t make Louella untie him.
From Literature
It would be easier to argue that the best defense against entropy is to stand athwart any change in taste and manners, as Plato advised in the “Republic.”
A connoisseur of Western literature, the supreme leader has a pretty good grasp of how alluring and corrosive Occidental ideas and manners can be.
The Solid Rock Mission Church official said he remembered Porter as a child, when he was always smiling and had the manners of an old Southern gentleman.
From Los Angeles Times
"She taught us manners and respect," he wrote in his autobiography Guardian of the Streets, often reminding him money meant little compared with how you treated others.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
