good manners
Example Sentences
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If parents only left money to well-behaved adult children with a pristine record of good manners and fiscal responsibility, most pet shelters would probably never have to raise funds again.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026
It’s not like those good manners and contrived niceties ever managed to paper over those divisions in the first place.
From Slate • Nov. 19, 2025
Your son was sometimes irritated by my questions, but he was raised with good manners.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
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.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2025
It was good manners, true, but also they wanted to be seen with her.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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