Mannered

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mannered \Man"nered\, a.
     1. Having a certain way, esp. a polite way, of carrying and
        conducting one's self; as, a well-mannered child.
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              Give her princely training, that she may be


              Mannered as she is born.              --Shak.
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     2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some
        characteristic peculiarity.
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              His style is in some degree mannered and confined.
                                                    --Hazlitt.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mannered
       adj : having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike
             idiom"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "mannered":
     Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, allusive,
     artificial, behaved, behavioral, behaviored, behaviorist,
     behavioristic, conscious, contrived, demeanored, elaborate,
     elaborated, euphuistic, figurative, figured, flowery, high-hat,
     highfalutin, histrionic, hoity-toity, hyperelegant, hypocritical,
     insincere, la-di-da, maniere, metaphorical, ornamented, overacted,
     overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overnice, overrefined,
     pompous, posed, precieuse, precieux, precious, pretentious, pseudo,
     referential, stagy, stiff, stilted, studied, theatrical,
     trolatitious, tropological, unnatural