mannerless

[ man-er-lis ]

adjective

1. without good manners; ill-mannered; discourteous; impolite.

mannerless

/ ˈmænəlɪs /

adjective

1. having bad manners; boorish

Derived Forms

• ˈmannerlessness, noun

Other Words From

• manner·less·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of mannerless¹

First recorded in 1425–75, mannerless is from the late Middle English word manerles. See manner ¹, -less

Example Sentences

Should you find that “Please don’t touch my baby” isn’t cutting the mustard with the mannerless hyenas of the world, it is appropriate to say, “He’s got hand-foot-and-mouth disease. It’s hugely contagious.”

From Slate

So you can understand bow Galahad may have seemed inhuman, and mannerless, and so on, to the people who were buzzing and clacking about him.

From Literature

Because the sheltered and mannerless Shan is nothing like the gold diggers surrounding Liu, he quickly becomes smitten.

From Los Angeles Times

“Failure to conform brings agonizing grief,” the magazine explained, “for children are mannerless humans who revel in ridiculing their fellows.”

From Time

Maybe it’s their famously protruding brow ridge or perhaps it’s the now-discredited notion that they were primitive scavengers too dumb to use language or symbolism, but somehow Neanderthals picked up a reputation as brutish, dim and mannerless cretins.

From Washington Post

Related Words

• barbaric
• barbarous
• boorish
• churlish
• disrespectful
• impolite
• rude
• unconscionable
• vulgar