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单词 mannerless
释义 mannerless, a.|ˈmænəlɪs|
[f. manner n.1 + -less.]
Without manners; unmannerly.
c1460Ros Belle Dame sans Merci 714 Iffe I medlyd with siche, or other mo Hit might be called pyte maner-les.1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. ii. (1586) 113 They will become carelesse, mannerlesse, and lesse readie to commendable enterprises.1682Shadwell Lanc. Witches i. Wks. 1720 III. 230 Thou fresh, insipid, witless, mannerless knight.1864Daily Tel. 4 Oct., [He] may not..necessarily be a morose and mannerless hog.




Add: Hence ˈmannerlessness n.
1947C. Amory Proper Bostonians xi. 238 In a single line which he wrote with evident pride about his father Wendell managed what would seem to be a summary of Boston's First Family mannerlessness.1984New Republic 27 Feb. 34/2 He was..dogmatic.., and far from conventionally polite; as one of his employers expressed it, ‘He had the mannerlessness of genius.’
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