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Recent Examples of mannered
Donald Harris’s post, just like his daughter’s joke, was a kind of mannered performance.
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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
Yet nothing about Ghee is mannered or fussy in the way of, say, an over-emotional Tony Awards acceptance speech; on the contrary, the work is disciplined, concise and immaculately crafted.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2024
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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
Yet nothing about Ghee is mannered or fussy in the way of, say, an over-emotional Tony Awards acceptance speech; on the contrary, the work is disciplined, concise and immaculately crafted.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mannered
Adjective
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Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Sophie Thatcher, among other guests, delivered gothic inspiration with their outfits, embracing current red carpet trends such as sheer dressing and exaggerated silhouettes.—
Renan Botelho,
WWD,
14 Feb. 2025
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These are exaggerated, and factually possible, scenarios.—
Mac Engel,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But diners won’t find pretentious fare at Canal House Station.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
13 Feb. 2025
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Art fairs trend toward the exclusive and pretentious.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Men’s fashion week has long been considered the quieter, less showy sibling of the long-standing women’s event.—
Joy Montgomery,
Vogue,
5 Feb. 2025
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Advertisement The fate of the nearby Bruin, which opened in 1937, remains unclear; it was not purchased along with its more showy sibling.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
21 July 2024
Adjective
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Advanced algorithms and neural networks can analyze pixel artifacts, unnatural movements and other subtle audio-visual data inconsistencies to detect deepfakes accurately.—
Dan Yerushalmi,
Forbes,
18 Feb. 2025
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That comes from Reid, according to Kelce, and it’s led an almost unnatural level of calm across the team.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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They are meticulously notated but also call for a kind of studied looseness.—
Joshua Barone,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Roberts’s studied nonresponse is one of the highlights of the picture.—
Peter Tonguette,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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There's so much freedom in not being self-conscious.—
H. Alan Scott,
Newsweek,
12 Feb. 2025
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At one point, Djordjevic traces the ridges of tree bark with the palm of his hand, self-conscious but hopeful of some sort of revelation.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The boy’s uncles—a visual artist and an aspiring intellectual—add his own flair, while Hinterland, his flamboyant great-grandmother, played by the now 92-year-old Liliane Rovère, regales memories of her home in Odessa, Prokofiev and a life less ordinary.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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Jennifer, when curating her vintage realm, realized that the term has two sides: while some think of exuberant, flamboyant pieces gathered in one disorderly shop, others imagine vintage as high-end, inaccessible to the average customer.—
Grace Butler,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Some developers replaced country homes with ostentatious mansions that look out of place.—
Heather Knight,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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Back in the 1970s, recalls a writer who grew up there, Malibu was a more relaxed and less ostentatious place.—
James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Jan. 2025
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“Mannered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mannered. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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