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Eat the sandwich open-faced, by hand, or submit to the mannered indignities of a fork and knife.
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
Donald Harris’s post, just like his daughter’s joke, was a kind of mannered performance.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024
His mother was both more modern and more mannered, with a sense of social justice and a compulsion to lay out china for Christmas dinner.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
But rather than an imitation of life as it was depicted in Sirk’s films, all mannered transatlantic speech and swishing shirtwaist dresses, Moore takes the assignment dead seriously.
—Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
Donald Harris’s post, just like his daughter’s joke, was a kind of mannered performance.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024
His mother was both more modern and more mannered, with a sense of social justice and a compulsion to lay out china for Christmas dinner.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
But rather than an imitation of life as it was depicted in Sirk’s films, all mannered transatlantic speech and swishing shirtwaist dresses, Moore takes the assignment dead seriously.
—Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
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“Mannered.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mannered. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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mannered
adjective
man·nered
ˈman-ərd 
: having manners of a specified kind
well-mannered
mild-mannered
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