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As a young painter from the Bronx, studying at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, his freshman roommate is a mild-mannered student named David Lynch.
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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
Yet these movements were not drawn out to the point of stasis, as in mannered recent performances by Vikingur Ólafsson.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
At formal family dinners, Garrett was polite and well mannered.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2025
In that environment, even a mild-mannered Messi could lose his cool and react uncharacteristically.
—Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
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Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
Yet these movements were not drawn out to the point of stasis, as in mannered recent performances by Vikingur Ólafsson.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
At formal family dinners, Garrett was polite and well mannered.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2025
In that environment, even a mild-mannered Messi could lose his cool and react uncharacteristically.
—Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
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“Mannered.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mannered. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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mannered
adjective
man·nered
ˈman-ərd 
: having manners of a specified kind
well-mannered
mild-mannered
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