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Mannerly

Mannerly \Man"ner*ly\, adv. With good manners.
--Shak.

Mannerly

Mannerly \Man"ner*ly\, a. Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant.

What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mannerly

"well-mannered, seemly, modest," late 14c., from manner (n.) + -ly (1). As an adverb, "in accord with custom; becomingly" (mid-14c.); later "in accord with good manners" (c.1400). Related: Mannerliness.

Wiktionary
mannerly

a. polite, having good manners

WordNet
mannerly

adj. socially correct in behavior [syn: well-mannered]

Usage examples of "mannerly".

It is cosmopolitan, corrupt, mannerly, creative, historic, innovative, multivalent, gentle, bold, concerned, and exciting.

Back activated savoir faire subroutines he had not needed since he escorted Ayradyss and John on their long-ago honeymoon, surprising Jay with his repertoire of courtly compliments that stayed precisely on the correct side of mannerly.

When the Spaniards came home at night, and they were all at supper, one of them took the freedom to reprove the three Englishmen, though in very gentle and mannerly terms, and asked them how they could be so cruel, they being harmless, inoffensive fellows: that they were putting themselves in a way to subsist by their labour, and that it had cost them a great deal of pains to bring things to such perfection as they were then in.

Whence he came in a mannerly world like this, by what sort of unaccountable tie he soon evinced himself to be linked with Ahab’s peculiar fortunes.