ill-mannered

Example Sentences

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The accompanying photo portraits are mostly hideous, in Ms. Wiles’s case also ill-mannered and unkind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

He is especially winning when he barely skirts the sentimental or ill-mannered.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

In any event, the young man was often dismissed as ill-mannered and intemperate, and he burned bridges with many who would gladly have helped him.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2019

Rome has tried for years to get ill-mannered tourists to behave.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2019

I too find it hard to believe there is a connection across time and space, linking me to a race of ill-mannered clowns.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate