What is "mannered"

Usage examples of "mannered".

But if he passed these same people two hours later in the High Street, their lives, their words were stranger than in a dream, or they seemed to have an incredible fictitious quality that made everything they did or said seem false, mannered, and affected, so that when he listened to them he had a feeling of resentment and contempt for them as if they spoke and moved with the palpable falseness of actors.

Veronique was an intelligent and wellmannered girl, and if my heart had not been already occupied she would have reigned there.

She was graceful, wellmannered, and intelligent, her mouth was well-shaped, and her eyes large and expressive.

Moreover, the peculiar mannered affectation of his speech was so studied that it hardly escaped extravagance.

Starwick in his curiously mannered voice, his air of languid weariness.

Eugene, would be the third and last of his years in Cambridge--Starwick had become more mannered in his dress and style than ever before.

This was a classic visionary Imagist drama from the previous century, set in a mannered future in which a genetically altered posthuman society was confronted by the return of violent human primitives from a forgotten space colony, a comedy of manners laced with acid and appalling violence.

To them belonged the mild mannered Lenni Lenape, who little foreboded the hand of iron that grasped their own so softly under the elm tree of Shackamaxon, to them the restless Shawnee, the gypsy of the wilderness, the Chipeways of Lake Superior, and also to them the Indian girl Pocahontas, who in the legend averted from the head of the white man the blow which, rebounding, swept away her father and all his tribe.

The stories, similarly, are mannered, stylized, adamantly nonrealistic, with a strong sense of game-playing, fakery and sleight-of-hand.

She was a Welshwoman of the pure blood, therefore delicately mannered by nature.

True, his notes and letters were sometimes scribbled in an abominable scrawl which took all her wits to decipher, and he had a nasty habit of springing something urgent on them to be typed just as they had cleared their desks for the day, but he was always beautifully mannered.

Hghthearted badinage with Cora and Marian that they expected, offering beautifully mannered thanks to Mrs Talbot, giving Ben a manly thump on the back and lastly turning to Polly.

The others clearly thought it was one of Bilisics’s usual mannered pleasantries.

The others clearly thought it was one of Bilisics's usual mannered pleasantries.

Frank was pretty sure that as long as he kept the appearance of the Committee of Correspondence in Rome reasonably mild mannered, Urban would figure that the benefit of having them active in the city outweighed the disadvantages.