Meanings
- pluralplural onlyThe treatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way, or incorrect behaviour in public.
In some cultures, it is considered to be bad manners to talk with your mouth full.
1 more example
We walked out into the sunlight and rode from the church to Rose Hills Memorial Park. My mother was buried in the family plot, alongside my father, my brothers Arthur and Harold, her mother and father, and her sister Elizabeth, who died of cancer. Only one reporter had the bad manners to stick a microphone in my face and ask how I felt. I just walked past him.
1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 288Antonyms: good manners
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe treatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way, or incorrect behaviour in public.
More synonyms by meaning
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Translations
Bulgarian неучти́вост, невъзпи́таност
- неучти́вост (neučtívost)treatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
- невъзпи́таност (nevăzpítanost)treatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Catalan mala educació
- mala educaciótreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Czech špatné chování
- špatné chovánítreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Estonian halvad kombed
- halvad kombedtreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Finnish huonoa käytöstä
- huonoa käytöstätreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
French mauvaises manières
- mauvaises manièrestreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
German schlechte Manieren
- schlechte Manierentreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Hungarian neveletlenség, modortalanság
- neveletlenségtreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
- modortalanságtreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Irish drochmhúineadh, drochbhéasa
- drochmhúineadhtreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
- drochbhéasatreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
- dímhúineadhtreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Italian maleducazione, scorrettezza
- maleducazionetreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
- scorrettezzatreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
- sgarbatagginetreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
- sgarbatezzatreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
- villaniatreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Polish złe maniery
- złe manierytreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Portuguese falta de educação, má educação
- falta de educaçãotreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
- má educaçãotreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
- maus modostreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Romanian lipsă de maniere
- lipsă de manieretreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Russian моветон
- моветон (moveton)treatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Scottish Gaelic mì-mhodh
- mì-mhodhtreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Slovak nevychovanosť
- nevychovanosťtreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Spanish falta de educación, malos modales
- falta de educacióntreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
- malos modalestreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Swedish oskick
- oskicktreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Turkish edepsizlik, terbiyesizlik
- edepsizliktreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
- terbiyesizliktreatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Ukrainian неви́хованість
- неви́хованість (nevýxovanistʹ)treatment of other people in an impolite or discourteous way
Cite this entry
bad manners. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bad%20manners
“bad manners.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bad%20manners. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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