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Definition of Bad manners
1. Noun. Impoliteness resulting from ignorance.
Definition of Bad manners
1. Noun. The treatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way, or incorrect behaviour in public. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bad Manners
Literary usage of Bad manners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents by George Jean Nathan (1917)
"THE CASE FOR bad manners THE lot of the American who elects to write for the
American stage is, to say the least, not a happy one. ..."
2. Readings in European History: A Collection of Extracts from the Sources by James Harvey Robinson (1906)
"... manners of venient and often disorderly troops of crusaders when they reached
Constantinople, she gives the following example of their bad manners. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... it has produced either in history or in any other department of literary art,
except, perhaps, fiction. From The London Review. bad manners IN ROUE. ..."
4. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including by Isabella Lucy Bird (1888)
"Prosperity — Convict Labour — A New Bridge — Yamagata — Intoxicating Forgeries—The
Government Buildings—bad manners—Snow Mountains —A Wretched Town. ..."
5. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... but it was considered bad manners to eat with a knife. Other rules for the
table are curious enough, but are also important as illustrating the manners ..."
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