Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mannered"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mannered \Man"nered\, a.
1. Having a certain way, esp. a polite way, of carrying and
conducting one's self.
Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered
as she is born. --Shak.
2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some
characteristic peculiarity.
His style is in some degree mannered and confined.
--Hazlitt.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mannered
adj : having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike
idiom"
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