MANNERED


Meaning of MANNERED in English

|manə(r)d adjective

Etymology: Middle English manered, from manere manner + -ed

1. : having manners of a specified kind — usually used in combination

well- mannered folk of comfortable means — Robert Shaplen

2.

a. archaic : dealing with or portraying social manners or customs

no hand at describing costumes, a great requisite in … mannered pictures — Charles Lamb

b.

(1) : having or displaying a particular or individual manner or style

delightfully mannered … lithographs of earlier American life — Times Literary Supplement

beautifully mannered without ever verging on the precious — Vernon Jarratt

(2) : having an artificial or stilted character : not natural or spontaneous

mannered , but imaginative — Dorothy Sayers

find it rather cold and mannered — C.J.Rolo

brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom — Times Literary Supplement

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.