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Ill-mannered

Definition: Ill-mannered

Ill-mannered

Adjective

1. Socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ill-mannered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Ill-mannered

Synonyms: rude (adj), unmannered (adj), unmannerly (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ill-mannered

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discourtesy

Adjective: discourteous, uncourteous; uncourtly; ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar; dedecorous; foul-mouthed foul-spoken; abusive.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ill-mannered

English words defined with "ill-mannered": boorish, brattish, brattyloutishNeandertal, neanderthalo.k., oafishswinish. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ill-mannered": Hogs-NortonProstitute. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ill-mannered

SubjectTopicQuote

Travel

Czech Rep

Rushing through lunch because of the press of business is considered ill-mannered, and may be insulting to your Czech guest or host. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Ill-mannered

"Ill-mannered" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ill-mannered" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3657,479

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ill-mannered

Language Translations for "ill-mannered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

njeri i paedukuar (cur, ill-mannered person, know-nothing). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pahantapainen (wicked), karkeakäytöksinen (unmannerly), epäkohtelias (discourteous, impolite, rude), epähieno (discourteous, rude, ungentlemanly, unladylike, unpolished). (various references)

   

French

  

impoli (ill mannered, ill-mannered person). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανάγωγος (badly behaved, badly brought up). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rossz modorú (ill bred, mannerless, unmannerly). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

無作法 (rude), 暴慢 (overbearing), (excellence, genius, rustic). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぼうま" (inflation, overbearing), ぶさほう (bad manners, discourtesy, rude), (2.44 miles, advantage, an official, benefit, clever, diarrhea, diarrhoea, interest, profit, reason, ri, rustic). (various references)

   

Manx

  

neuellynagh (artless, bad taste, impolite, inartistic, rude, vulgar), neuchooyrtoil (unchivalrous), mee-ellynagh, garroo (boisterous, coarse, coarse-fibred, crude, dirty, dirty of weather, hairy, harsh, husky, jagged, low, naughty, pockmarked, raw, rough, rough-and-tumble, rough-spoken, rude, rugged, scraggy, stormy, stormy as sea, stubbly, uncouth, undressed, uneven, uneven as ground, vulgar). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ill-mannereday.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scratchy, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly), невоспитанный (boorish, discourteous, ill bred, ill mannered, ill-bred, low-bred, uncultured, unmannerly, unnurtured). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mal educado (cubbish, ill bred, ill mannered, ill-bread, impolite, loud, unmannerly). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

slyngelaktig (loutish, oafish), obelevad (ill bred, ill mannered, ill-bred, unmannerly). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ซึ่งไม่มีมารยาท. (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

kakabaю (ill-bred). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thô lỗ (beastly, indelicate, loutish, plebeian, snippety, snippy, underbred, ungentle), cục cằn; lịch sự. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Ill-mannered"

Words rhyming with "ill-mannered" (pronounced 'Ill`-man"nered'): Bannered, Imbannered, mannered, Well-mannered. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Ill-mannered

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-l-m-n-n-r"

-2 letters: madrilene.

-3 letters: aldermen, endemial, inlander, landline, landmine, mandrill, mannered, remailed, remained, remanned, remedial, renailed.

-4 letters: adenine, aliened, aliener, amender, annelid, dallier, delaine, dialler, emailed, emerald, enamine, ermined, inarmed, landler, landmen, leadier, leadmen, learned, limeade, lindane, lineman, linemen, mandrel, mandril, manille, manlier, marline, mealier, meander, melanin, mineral, nardine, rallied, ralline, redline, reedman, relined, renamed, rimland.

-5 letters: admire, aedile, aedine, aeried, aidmen, airmen, aldrin, alined, aliner, allied, almner, aneled, ariled, daimen, damner, darnel, dealer, dearie, delime, demean, denari, denial, denier, derail, dermal, dialer, dinner, earned, elmier, enamel, endear, endrin, ennead, ermine, inaner, indene, inland, ladler, laired, lander, lanner, larine, leaden, leader, leaned, leaner, lender, lieder, lienal, lierne, limned, limner, linden, lineal, linear, maiden, mailed, mailer, maline, malled, mallee, mallei, manned, manner, marine, marled, marlin, mealie, meaner, meanie, mediae, medial, median, medina, medlar, melder, melled, mender, menial, merlin, milden, milder, milled, miller, minder, nailed, nailer, narine, neared, nellie, nereid, nilled, railed, rained, reamed, rediae, redial, reined, relaid, relend, relied, reline, remade, remail, remain, remand, remend, remind, renail, rename, rilled.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ill-mannered


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6C 6C 2D 6D 61 6E 6E 65 72 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01101101 01100001 01101110 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#108 &#108 &#45 &#109 &#97 &#110 &#110 &#101 &#114 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006C 006C 002D 006D 0061 006E 006E 0065 0072 0065 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

437878157967808071847170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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