bad manners
Example Sentences
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But for some social situations, quietly slipping out the door may not be bad manners at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
That’s bad manners, at best, or a willful abandoning of her fiduciary duty, at worst.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025
"I applied for the Aberdeen job once and didn't even get a reply, which I thought was really bad manners," Neil Warnock told the BBC podcast Sacked in the Morning in November.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2024
"With common sense you can distinguish what is rude or bad manners from what is a crime," Vox said on X, formerly Twitter.
From Reuters ● Aug. 30, 2023
Their uniforms were black, and two of them hadn’t taken their caps off, which Malcolm knew was bad manners, apart from anything else.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
