mannerliness

By the time she delivers Georgina’s now famous, “No, no, no, no, no, no …” Ms. Gabriel has tipped the part’s tremulous, robotic mannerliness into malfunctioning mannerism.

Mrs. Prada found it all at once enchanting and stultifying, and she still battles with the residue of mannerliness it left her with.

And it was not long before Mirandola would sit upon his knee, and take food from his hand with all mannerliness; and, its distrust gone, showed itself to be as affectionate and devoted as a dog.

The lord mayor, Lieutenant-General Pitcairn Campbell, Admiral Stileman, and other men from both arms of England's service were there, not to feel of their feelings, but to make the landing as agreeable and convenient as possible, and to convey to General Pershing, with Anglo-Saxon mannerliness and reticence, their great pleasure at having him come.

In words too intimate not to be autobiographical he had written of the downright scholar, whose "perplexitye of mannerliness will not let him feed, and he is sharp set at an argument when he should cut his meate."