manners

The executor’s actions are bad manners, at best, or a willful abandoning of her fiduciary duty, at worst.

Still, Saturday’s manners meltdown is a sign of something gone wrong somewhere.

Your son was sometimes irritated by my questions, but he was raised with good manners.

A diplomat by nature and possessed of old-fashioned manners, he struggled as a party leader and his performances in the bear pit of Prime Minister's Questions were seen by many as ineffectual.

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.