unmannered

Example Sentences

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So says Johnny, a patient, constantly curious radio journalist portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix in a gratifyingly mellow, unmannered turn in “C’mon C’mon.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 22, 2021

He worshipped Diana Adams, a very clean-lined, long-legged, unmannered ballerina.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

He’s certainly appealing, in his rough-hewn way—Mr. Edgerton gives a solid, unmannered performance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2018

Mr. Smigel has developed a gleefully unmannered voice that he’s used to send up politics and pop culture on shows like “Saturday Night Live” and as his trash-talking puppet creation, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2017

Some of them are unmannered, rough, intractable, as well as ignorant; but others are docile, have a wish to learn, and evince a disposition that pleases me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë