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Recent Examples of mannered
Canadian Shane is mild-mannered, sheltered and bred for his success by his hockey helicopter parents.
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Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025
Directed by Adam Rodgers, the indie sees Garcia plays George, a mild-mannered heart surgeon tagging along with his teenage son (Lofranco) on a tour of the campus at Middleton College.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 21 Nov. 2025
Her most mild-mannered heroines snoop through curtains and hedges; at their most audacious, her spinsters whip out binoculars and sneak uninvited into other people’s homes.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Even the mild-mannered Waterboy is upset, knocking over cups in the kitchen in his own weak way — that is, until emotion gets the best of him, leading to the lanky hero hurling a chair through the vending machine.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mannered
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The measure’s lead proponent, the Service Employees International Union, sees the threat of an exodus as exaggerated.—
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But current and former leaders of foster care agencies told the Tampa Bay Times last year that the claims were exaggerated or false, and that the Hope Florida program was duplicating existing efforts in child welfare.—
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The result is a unique brand of luxury that is warm, welcoming, and intentional—not pretentious.—
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Jonathan’s making pretentious anti-capitalist films at NYU.—
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After Hours is slick, showy, cinematic, explicit about its eighties inspirations—new wave, electropop, R&B—and its pure pop aspirations.—
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Their bulkier, showier, counterparts are slowly being replaced by small, streamlined in-ear headphones, which take up less space inside a carry-on.—
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While there are certainly products that can be used across different hair textures, lengths, curl patterns, thicknesses, colors (natural and unnatural), and needs, hair products are often created with specific consumers in mind.—
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The handsome pair of actors play sniper specialists from enemy countries who must each take a long shift on opposite sides of a massive trench where some unnatural monsters apparently lurk below.—
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Neves Valente, 48, was a Portuguese national and studied physics at Brown from the fall of 2000 to the spring of 2001, according to Brown President Christina Paxson.—
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In some ways, her approach to design is very studied and methodical.—
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The book presents itself as a comic take on the classic adultery novel and a send-up of a narrow, self-conscious group of downwardly mobile New Yorkers.—
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Others, however, may feel self-conscious, overwhelmed by the sensory overload – all the textures, commotion and bright colors, not to mention people staring at them.—
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There’s a joyous excitement to the bad things Jimmy does, wearing a tiara and upside-down cross and boasting a flamboyant streak.—
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When thinking about the trade show’s defining look — net of the Pitti peacocks’ flamboyant outfits — traditional tailoring quickly comes to mind.—
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Besides, $500 gets you a pretty decent phone these days — without ostentatious gold and a close affiliation with a president who has a decades-long track record of launching and sinking well over a dozen businesses.—
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Underneath all the spandex and over-the-top production numbers is a sincere film that cares as much about sharing the joy of music as satirizing its ostentatious performance.—
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“Mannered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mannered. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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