adjective

• Having bad manners; not behaving well in social situations.

  ‘ill-mannered and unruly children’

  More example sentences

  • ‘But many people, however, now celebrate and defend rude, ill-mannered behavior.’
  • ‘It was quite rude and ill-mannered of you to make them wait on you.’
  • ‘Golf parties are not notoriously rowdy or ill-mannered.’
  • ‘I found him to be ill-mannered and didn't take to him at all.’
  • ‘When Winston Churchill visited Bletchley during the war to make a speech to the codebreakers, he thought they were ill-dressed, ill-mannered and eccentric.’

  Synonyms

  bad-mannered, rude, unmannerly, mannerless, impolite, discourteous, uncivil, abusive, disagreeable

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