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BAD MANNERS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bad manners mean?
• BAD MANNERS (noun)
The noun BAD MANNERS has 1 sense:
1. impoliteness resulting from ignorance
Familiarity information: BAD MANNERS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Impoliteness resulting from ignorance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
bad manners; ill-breeding
Hypernyms ("bad manners" is a kind of...):
impoliteness (a discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage)
Context examples
I stopped to assure him that I had not done so in bad manners, but uncertain whether he might or might not like a job.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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