mannered

Modifies a noun

• style: The effect was a more subtle, less mannered style of acting and a move toward realism.
• performance: His mannered performance never allows him to really get under the skin of a drunk.
• man: A mild mannered man played the part of the victim.
• child: Mixing with bad mannered children who are badly behaved does nothing except create more of the same.
• horse: The risk of accidents is reduced to a minimum, because only very well mannered horses are used.
• chap: For such a mild mannered, friendly chap, Richard certainly possesses some clinical racket ability.

Modifying Another Word

• ill: There are four Bibles in the house which is dirty and the inhabitants ill favored and ill mannered, except the joiner.
• too: However, in the play's climactic moments of violence and force, the blocking seems under-rehearsed and a little too mannered.
• very: But what we did see was very mannered and his legs are very, very quick and precise.
• impeccably: The impeccably mannered Olsdal has an equally polite Japanese male stalker; Hewitt gets women sneaking into his hall way at regular intervals.
• perfectly: Emily herself was perfectly mannered, smartly dressed with the color complimenting her dog.
• somewhat: It was a pretty greeting, although somewhat mannered; and Dick felt himself among the gods.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Sometimes he became too mannered for his own good - but elsewhere he hit upon passages of scorching lucidity.