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manners

US // (ˈmænəz) //

礼仪,礼节,礼貌,态度

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : social conducthe has the manners of a pig
    • : a socially acceptable way of behaving

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounpolite, refined social behavior

Examples

  • “Personally, I deal with manners of righteousness and God,” he says.

  • He declined to award £30 to Miss Manners for her taxi journey but awarded her £10 travel expenses.

  • He contacted police after receiving six text messages from Miss Manners during the five months to April.

  • In a bizarre twist to proceedings, Miss Manners sought to have her £30 cab fare from her Kensington flat to court refunded.

  • There are those, however, who don't equate sangfroid and good manners with maturity.

  • Smoking, the angry and fuming king protests, had made our manners as rude as those of the fish-wives of Dieppe.

  • Thomas Smith died; a learned English writer on the manners and religion of the Turks, &c.

  • His Characters, in imitation of Theophrastus, is a work of established excellence, and descriptive of the manners of that age.

  • Mrs. Pell was a very elegant and accomplished woman; her manners were the theme of universal admiration in our neighbourhood.

  • In those days fashions and manners differed greatly from those of to-day.