mannered

adjective

man·​nered ˈma-nərd 

1

: having manners of a specified kind

well-mannered

2

a

: having or displaying a particular manner

b

: having an artificial or stilted character

passages … so mannered as to be unintelligible

—R. G. G. Price

Examples of mannered in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Donald Harris’s post, just like his daughter’s joke, was a kind of mannered performance. —Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024

His mother was both more modern and more mannered, with a sense of social justice and a compulsion to lay out china for Christmas dinner. —Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024

But rather than an imitation of life as it was depicted in Sirk’s films, all mannered transatlantic speech and swishing shirtwaist dresses, Moore takes the assignment dead seriously. —Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024

Yet nothing about Ghee is mannered or fussy in the way of, say, an over-emotional Tony Awards acceptance speech; on the contrary, the work is disciplined, concise and immaculately crafted. —Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2024

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing mannered

• ill-mannered
• well-mannered

Kids Definition

mannered

adjective

man·​nered ˈman-ərd 

: having manners of a specified kind

well-mannered

mild-mannered