unmannerly
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- socially incorrect in behavior
Adj
- Not mannerly (“polite; having good manners”).
Adv
- In a way that is not mannerly; discourteously, rudely.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English unmanerli (“of a person: disorderly, unruly; of conduct: inappropriate, improper”), from un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + manerli, manerly (“well-mannered; modest; customary; moral”). Manerli is derived from maner (“kind, sort; form, nature; circumstances; method, manner; outward behaviour, manners; morals; custom, usage; cause, reason”) (from Anglo-Norman, Old French manere (“fashion, manner, way”), from Latin manuārius (“of or pertaining to the hand”), from manus (“hand”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”)) + -li (suffix forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as un- + mannerly, and is cognate with Danish umanerlig, German unmanierlich, Middle Dutch onmanierlijc (modern Dutch onmanierlijk), Swedish omanerlig, West Frisian ûnmanearlik.
Synonyms
aweless, bad-mannered, barbaric, bold, bumptious, churlish, crude, discourteous, gauche, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, impolitely, incivil, insolent, lack-grace, mismannered, rantipole, rough, rude, uncivil, uncivilly, uncourteous, uncouth, uncultured, underbred, unmannered, unmannerly, unpolished, unpolite, unrefined
Scrabble Score: 15
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