Thesaurus results for MANNERS

manners

noun

plural of manner

as in demeanor

personal conduct or behavior as evaluated by an accepted standard of appropriateness for a social or professional setting the young man's impeccable manners are an unmistakable sign of a good upbringing

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Recent Examples of manners This sunny fruit enlivens steamed greens, seafood treasures of all manners, such as, crab cakes, shrimp cocktail, and poached salmon, along with scrumptious baked goods and desserts (meringue pies and bars, tarts, ricotta pancakes, sorbets, silky curds, scones, biscottis, muffins). —

Catharine Kaufman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2026 Protecting those bonds isn’t just good manners. —

Ryan Brennan april 10, Kansas City Star, 10 Apr. 2026 Kempczinski, the subject of widespread backlash after eating a McDonald's Big Arch burger on camera, told The Wall Street Journal his mom encouraged him to mind his manners, especially at the dinner table. —

Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026 Practicing restaurant behavior at home or in casual settings can help kids learn good manners in a low-pressure way. —

wendy Wisner, Parents, 6 Apr. 2026 Your niece’s lack of manners is hurtful and disappointing. —

Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2026 Footwear with impeccable manners and a very special kind of poise is grown-up in the best sense of the word. —

Alex Sales, Glamour, 5 Apr. 2026 The values are different now, the lifestyles, the accepted vulgarity, the manners, the view of what’s patriotic and what’s not, the concept of service. —

Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026 Judith Martin's Miss Manners column has chronicled the continuous rise and fall of American manners since 1978. —

Judith Martin, Dallas Morning News, 30 Mar. 2026

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And Ben Ahlers, who plays the adult Happy, comes with that actor’s famously warm smile and chirpy demeanor, slowly worn down here before your eyes, as the permissible frolics of youth turn into the stasis of one going nowhere.

— Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026
Barkin, who was dating Levinson at the time of the film’s production, gamely strives to anchor the odd, histrionic film with her performance and wrings real pathos out of Lynn’s brittle and wounded demeanor.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026