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bad manners

Noun

Meaning

impoliteness resulting from ignorance

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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. Walt Whitman

As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing. Audrey Hepburn

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. Benjamin Banneker

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools. Charlaine Harris

It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged. Irish Proverb

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