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bad-mannered

adjective as in ungracious

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Example Sentences

Richard M. Nixon complained in a 1971 memo that, at his first news conference after that year’s dinner, “where I played the ‘good sport role,’ the reporters were considerably more bad-mannered and vicious than usual.”

Am I really as bad-mannered, headstrong, stubborn, pushy, stupid, lazy, etc., etc., as the van Daans say I am?

He often has lunch at the local café, where the staff describe him as bad-mannered and unpleasant.

But you only have to look at your husband to see how bad-mannered and offensive he is.

From Time

The Pratts were like that—full of delicacies so subtle that plain folk never noticed them, but jumped instead to the conclusion that they were bad-mannered.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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