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| amenity |
(pl.) social courtesies; agreeable manners; pleasantries. [1/3 definitions] |
| Anglomania |
a greatly exaggerated attachment to or imitation of English manners, habits, institutions, and the like. |
| aristocrat |
one who has the manners, tastes, bearing, or the like of such a class. [1/3 definitions] |
| barbaric |
lacking manners or refined taste; crude. [1/2 definitions] |
| charm |
to influence by personal attractiveness or pleasing manners. [1/11 definitions] |
| citified |
having or taking the manners, dress, speech, customs, or the like of a person living in a large city. |
| citify |
to accustom to city life; cause to adopt urban manners and styles. |
| comedy of manners |
a comedy that satirizes the customs and manners of fashionable society. |
| courteous |
displaying or marked by politeness, good manners, or graciousness toward other people. |
| courtesy |
politeness, good manners, or consideration for other people. [1/3 definitions] |
| couth |
sophisticated or refined in one's manners. |
| cultured |
refined in manners or education; sophisticated. [1/4 definitions] |
| dainty |
having delicate and refined manners or taste, esp. with respect to cleanliness or food. [1/4 definitions] |
| decorous |
proper or formal with respect to behavior, manners, appearance, or the like. |
| discourteous |
not having or showing good manners; impolite; rude. |
| exquisite |
one who is excessively concerned or fastidious about appearance, taste, or manners. [1/4 definitions] |
| farouche |
lacking social manners, or unsociable in a savage, uncivilized way; wild. |
| fastidious |
excessively sensitive or delicate in matters of food, manners, dress, or personal hygiene. [1/2 definitions] |
| faux pas |
a tactless error in manners or behavior; social blunder. |
| fop |
a man who is highly concerned with, and often vain about, his appearance and manners; dandy. |
| Frenchify |
(informal) to cause to become like the French, esp. in manners, customs, character, or dress. |
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