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mannerless
adjective as in uncivil
adjective as in uncivilized
Example Sentences
Should you find that “Please don’t touch my baby” isn’t cutting the mustard with the mannerless hyenas of the world, it is appropriate to say, “He’s got hand-foot-and-mouth disease. It’s hugely contagious.”
So you can understand bow Galahad may have seemed inhuman, and mannerless, and so on, to the people who were buzzing and clacking about him.
Because the sheltered and mannerless Shan is nothing like the gold diggers surrounding Liu, he quickly becomes smitten.
“Failure to conform brings agonizing grief,” the magazine explained, “for children are mannerless humans who revel in ridiculing their fellows.”
Maybe it’s their famously protruding brow ridge or perhaps it’s the now-discredited notion that they were primitive scavengers too dumb to use language or symbolism, but somehow Neanderthals picked up a reputation as brutish, dim and mannerless cretins.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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