mannerly

How will you compete against the mannerly, well turned out student with no record of truancy.

They should abuse prescription drugs and wear the respectable fashion and be mannerly like upper class people such as myself.

On the one hand, the napkin is to keep the scent close to the mouth and nose, on the other hand, it is considered more mannerly not to bother table neighbors with the sight and the resulting noise.

> ungracious Oh goodness me, that word is redolent of drawing rooms and mannerly discourse.

Everywhere I’ve been, people have been kind, generous, well-behaved, mannerly and law-abiding.

If someone says the sky is green, you prove that it’s actually blue, and the next day he comes back once again insisting that the sky is green, and this happens repeatedly, you eventually have to acknowledge that mannerly debate about the color of the sky just isn’t enough; you have to go meta, and talk about the fact that this guy and his friends just aren’t in the business of honest discussion.

And if you now say you support civility but reserve the right to redefine it, you're straying from the dictionary definition: (Synonyms: civilian - polite - courteous - civic - mannerly) > I'm pretty sure what Raganwald considers civility would be considered by most Hackers to be a lame net nanny kind of censorship I don't know anything about Raganwald or his principles.

"You are rejected for undisclosed but mannerly reasons" isn't much more helpful than "no".

These are the same points made in criticisms of aristocratic elites: the aristocrats demand "mannerly" speech from the lower class members, getting offended over the lack of manners as a way to deflect from the otherwise legitimate complaints or observations that the lower class has to say.

Consider the lines: "Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss" The main barrier to understanding this isn't the word choice; most readers know what these words mean (expect maybe palmer); it's the way the sentences are constructed.