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mannered Definition

man·nered (-ərd)

adjective

  1. having manners of a specified sort: used in hyphenated compounds ill-mannered
  2. having or showing a specified manner a solemnly mannered ceremony
  3. artificial, stylized, or affected a mannered literary style

mannered Synonyms

mannered

modif.

artificial, self-conscious, posed; see affected 2.

mannered Usage Examples

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.

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