MANNERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mannered mean? 

• MANNERED (adjective)
  The adjective MANNERED has 1 sense:

1. having unnatural mannerisms

  Familiarity information: MANNERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANNERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having unnatural mannerisms

Context example:

brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom

Similar:

affected; unnatural (speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression)

 Context examples 

“A milder and better mannered song hath never been heard within these walls,” cried another.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Was there ever a more mild-mannered, Sunday-school young man?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Amy found Grace a well-mannered, merry, little person, and after staring dumbly at one another for a few minutes, they suddenly became very good friends.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And that is saying a great deal; for after all, the British peasantry are the best taught, best mannered, most self-respecting of any in Europe: since those days I have seen paysannes and Bauerinnen; and the best of them seemed to me ignorant, coarse, and besotted, compared with my Morton girls.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)