good manners
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- noun
- /ɡʊd ˈmænərz/
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buenos modales
- My mother felt that etiquette and good manners were important.
- good manners and respect
- violation of good manners
- demonstrating good manners
Be calm, be quiet, sit and wait with good manners.
- Be calm, be quiet, sit and wait with good manners.
- Well, they sit and they wait calmly, quietly, with good manners.
- I personally think green flags should be kindness, respect, compassion, communicating clearly, having good manners.
- I am a big believer in good manners and in a right and wrong way to treat people.
- Manners are really important and was working with mine and I think that there is just no excuse to not have good manners.
- That it's perfectly possible to gain access to talented people within the industry through simplicities as good manners and good writing skills.
- They wait quietly, calmly, with good manners, using our stay until we welcome that person into our house.
- Another, less charitable review described it as smelling of Lucifer's deep furnace with a stench that would stifle virtue and good manners.
Examples
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We expect you to have good manners when guests come to our home.
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They wait quietly, calmly, with good manners, using our stay until we welcome that person into our house.
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Your dad likes you to show good manners.
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I know you have better manners than that, walking in here without speaking.
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Through it all, he had never lost his good manners or his good spirits.
Fiction book (1991) -
Plus, my friends respect my good manners, and they almost always extend the same courtesy to me.
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I am a big believer in good manners and in a right and wrong way to treat people.
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Remember, you're in England, land of good manners.
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Soon Stevens's instinctive good manners led him to break the silence.
Fiction book (1997) -
We expect you to demonstrate good manners when guests visit our home.
Synonyms
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Polite actions or words that show you value someone
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Friendly and generous actions that help or comfort other people
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Polite actions or words that show respect for other people
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Polite ways of behaving toward other people, like saying please and thank you
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Polite, respectful behavior that follows common social rules
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Polite and respectful words and actions toward other people
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Rules for polite behavior in social or work situations
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Polite and proper behavior in formal situations
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Showing good manners and respect to other people
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Polite manners learned from family or education
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Polite and respectful behavior that men show toward women
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A kind and polite way of treating other people
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Being kind, polite, and generous to other people
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Warm friendly behavior that makes people feel welcome
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Formal good manners and speech that shows respect for others
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Polite and kind behavior toward other people's feelings and wishes
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A polite way of behaving that follows social rules
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Being friendly, generous, and caring to other people
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Polite and kind behaviour that shows respect and good manners
A polite way of behaving that shows respect for other people
A kind, friendly attitude that wants to help others
A quality that shows polite, honest behavior and neat clothes
Antonyms
How Polite
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'polite and considerate behavior' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'good' (a positive quality) with 'manners' (social behavior); the adjective simply qualifies the noun. This straightforward compositional pattern is common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Good manners: The phrase good manners comes from an old sense of manners meaning a person's 'way' of doing things, like how they use their hands and body in polite situations. So good manners means the 'good' ways of behaving that show respect and courtesy.