BAD MANNERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bad manners mean? 

• BAD MANNERS (noun)
  The noun BAD MANNERS has 1 sense:

1. impoliteness resulting from ignorance

  Familiarity information: BAD MANNERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAD MANNERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impoliteness resulting from ignorance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bad manners; ill-breeding

Hypernyms ("bad manners" is a kind of...):

impoliteness (a discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage)

 Context examples 

I stopped to assure him that I had not done so in bad manners, but uncertain whether he might or might not like a job.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)