mannered

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Recent Examples of mannered Yet these movements were not drawn out to the point of stasis, as in mannered recent performances by Vikingur Ólafsson. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025 At formal family dinners, Garrett was polite and well mannered. Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2025 In that environment, even a mild-mannered Messi could lose his cool and react uncharacteristically. Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025 How was this apparently mild-mannered Dutchman remaining so calm in the public glare? Gregg Evans, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mannered
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mannered
Adjective
  • The artwork is silly and exaggerated to capture youngsters’ attention.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 28 May 2025
  • Uber Technologies Woods named Uber his favorite long-term stock, and said any notion that Tesla could pose a competitive threat to the ride sharing company is exaggerated.
    Brian Evans, CNBC, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • Wine doesn’t have to be pretentious or complicated.
    Liz Thach, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
  • Trust the French to come up with the most pretentious word in the dictionary.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Weisz has the showy lead role (Kim Stanley, who played the same part decades ago, got an Oscar nomination for her efforts).
    Brent Lang, Variety, 13 May 2025
  • Bohemian Rhapsody might have been god-awful, but the role of Freddie Mercury was as singular as it was showy — that of an icon who demanded a place for himself in the spotlight through sheer talent and force of will.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • While there are certainly products that can be used across different hair textures, lengths, curl patterns, thicknesses, colors (natural and unnatural), and needs, hair products are often created with specific consumers in mind.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 31 May 2025
  • Concurrently, fire exclusion policies aimed to protect young stands but inadvertently led to unnatural fuel accumulation beneath regenerating trees.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Adjective
  • The top 100 scoring cities, formed the site’s Top 100 Best Places to Live, representing the top 5% of U.S. cities with populations in the studied range.
    Fernanda Galan, Sacbee.com, 3 June 2025
  • But my outsized feelings of enclosure and entrapment were the tunnel vision of a forty-year-old fear crashing through my long and studied insulation.
    Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Adjective
  • If your son is self-conscious about public displays of affection, find a compromise.
    Ashleigh N. DeLuca, Parents, 29 May 2025
  • Stock image of a man sitting apart from others, looking self-conscious.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • While the boorish behavior of Twain’s shipmates is cataloged throughout (snapping off pieces of ancient monuments for souvenirs, for instance), his most flamboyant portrayal is a self-portrait.
    Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025
  • Trump was rewriting reality again Friday afternoon as one of the most flamboyant, destructive bromances in government history petered out in the Oval Office.
    Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
Adjective
  • The single-story, low-profile home houses three bedrooms—nothing oversized or ostentatious.
    Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
  • The Saudis envisage The Line — an ambitious, or ostentatious, trail of infrastructure spanning 170km — being front and centre when the country hosts the FIFA World Cup in 2034.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 20 May 2025

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