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

Rampling crackles as a matriarch who can sniff out her kids’ lies and insecurities but has the good manners not to say anything.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

Keep that in mind in daily interactions, and good manners will naturally follow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

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

During Easter vacation Tom said good manners were no harder to learn than rolling over or playing dead.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer