polished manners
Example Sentences
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Von Bülow, trained as a lawyer, had polished manners and, as a result of his marriage, a vast fortune.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2019
Sometimes educating their sons in England, planters used impressive houses, the finest furnishings, elaborate entertainments, and polished manners to display their wealth and claim superior status.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
He was suave, with polished manners and a steady supply of spending money.
From New York Times • May 1, 2015
Bulganin never bellows or uses foul language, as his old friend Kaganovich does; he has polished manners, clean fingernails, and never spills his soup, as Stalin used to do.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, though scarcely twenty-seven, he gave the impression of a warlike being, violent, conqueror of himself, disciplined even to his acquired and perfectly polished manners.
From The Children of Alsace Les Oberl?s by Bazin, Ren?
