Sentence examples for bad-mannered from inspiring English sources
The word "bad-mannered" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to describe someone or something with poor or rude social behaviour. For example, "The man was so bad-mannered that he didn't even acknowledge everyone as he walked into the room."
adjective
Of or pertaining to having bad manners; impolite.
- He was extremely bad-mannered and caused offence wherever he went.
Unlike past dabblings in public affairs propaganda (yes, this all falls along the spectrum of public manipulation), new designs will enjoy an easing of the draconian Smith-Mundt Act, which required good manners in bad-mannered theaters, and greater empowerment of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees sprawling outlets like Voice of America.
How wonderfully bad-mannered.
What a mean, tight-wad, mendacious, xenophobic and bad-mannered government we have.
It feels unloving and certainly bad-mannered to say: "Okay, if you really want to die, fine".
Bad-mannered as these summary firings may be, the outrage that accompanied their exposure seemed faintly artificial.
Among his best-known works are Goops and How to Be Them (1900) and subsequent books on Goops (bad-mannered children).
Knickerbocker is masculine and too bad mannered to suit ladies.
"The whole thing is so graceless and stupid and bad mannered," Lessing said.
Quite right too, bad mannered and counter-productive, if not wholly untrue, only mostly so.
It is, of course, equally possible to be deliberately bad mannered or deliberately to flout a linguistic convention or expectation, but this can be done only by knowing what is expected in the situation.
A withering email to a "bad mannered" bride-to-be from her future mother-in-law has gone viral, prompting comparison between its author and the sitcom snob Hyacinth Bucket.
