mannered

Shuster: “I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women.”

Their phones do work, and are operated by a disarmingly well-mannered host or hostess.

He is a mild-mannered and generous guy, not the kind of person prone to fits of pique or rage.

“Rails” and “lacerate,” two other words swiftly elected for pillory, were classic Tejpal, overblown, mannered, theatrical.

Where Kate is mild-mannered and middle-class, Cressy, 24, is a wild, blue-blooded aristocrat with bohemian heritage.

I cannot say how this affected others, but to me it seemed hardly more ill-mannered than impolitic.

He was a mild-mannered man, tall, rather pale, with refined features and a low-toned pleasant voice.

We learned this in conversation with a sweet-faced, quiet-mannered lady who had all the Quaker characteristics.

Every action of the doctor had been noted, and information of it conveyed to the quiet-mannered man in pince-nez.

They would starve on the skin of the Scotch men and are too well-mannered to attack that of the Scotch ladies.