Synonyms for manners
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1. mannersnoun

   Address is that indefinable something which enables a man to gain his object without seeming exertion or contest, and generally with the favor and approval of those with whom he deals. It is a general power to direct to the matter in hand whatever qualities are most needed for it at the moment. It includes adroitness and discretion to know what to do or say and what to avoid; ingenuity to devise; readiness to speak or act; the dexterity that comes of practise; and tact, which is the power of fine touch as applied to human character and feeling. Courtesy and politeness are indispensable elements of good address. Compare SPEECH.

   Synonyms:
   address, address, adroitness, courtesy, dexterity, discretion, ingenuity, politeness, readiness, tact

   Antonyms:
   awkwardness, boorishness, clownishness, clumsiness, fatuity, folly, ill manners, ill-breeding, rudeness, stupidity, unmannerliness, unwisdom

   Preposition:
   Address in dealing with opponents; the address of an accomplished intriguer; an address to the audience.

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1. manners

   Synonyms:
   deportment, behavior, carriage, courtesy, politeness, intercourse, demeanor

   Antonyms:
   misdemeanor, misbehavior, unmannerliness

Princeton's WordNet

1. mannersnoun

   social deportment

   "he has the manners of a pig"

Matched Categories

1. • Demeanor

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1. mannersnoun

   Synonyms:
   morals, habits, carriage, behavior, deportment, bearing, breeding, air, customary conduct

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1. mannersnoun

   Associated words:
   etiquette

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1. List of paraphrases for "manners":

   ways, mores

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1. Robert A. Heinlein:

   An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

2. Jordan Shapiro:

   It is an economic and civic necessity to help kids online, we teach them manners for playground life, and we should be teaching them manners for online life, too.

3. C. A. Bartol:

   Good manners and good morals are sworn friends and fast allies.

4. Martin Luther:

   Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

5. Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1:

   For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.