adjective
definition
(often in combination) Having manners or (often excessive) mannerisms.
example
His upbringing had led him to act in an overly mannered way.
Examples of mannered in a Sentence
Tammy was well mannered and required little supervision.
Well mannered dogs that are able to pass the test are eligible to be awarded an AKC Canine Good Citizen certificate.
The inhabitants are described as moral, religious, hospitable to strangers, well mannered and industrious, healthy and long lived.
Helge spent the next decade and a half collecting the impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings that Carl found ' awful, mannered and ghastly ' .
Always on the alert for crime, he got his tip-offs from the police station where he worked as the mild mannered janitor.
There are four Bibles in the house which is dirty and the inhabitants ill favored and ill mannered, except the joiner.
However, in the play's climactic moments of violence and force, the blocking seems under-rehearsed and a little too mannered.
But what we did see was very mannered and his legs are very, very quick and precise.
The impeccably mannered Olsdal has an equally polite Japanese male stalker; Hewitt gets women sneaking into his hall way at regular intervals.
Emily herself was perfectly mannered, smartly dressed with the color complimenting her dog.
Sometimes he became too mannered for his own good - but elsewhere he hit upon passages of scorching lucidity.
He is still entire and would make a great pony stallion, as he is striking, very talented and superbly mannered.
By nature, they are generally well mannered and calm.
There is a regal air about them, and they present themselves in a stately, mannered way.
Fashionable jargon changes with the seasons, but usually manages to sound coy, mannered, and then after a point, dowdy.
At the same time it is unmistakably inspired by a sense of beauty different from the Italian - more piquant and pointed, less languorous, more mannered perhaps, but with less of empty rhythmical effect.