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Throughout the season, Coop holds forth in voice-over monologues long on faux profundity, mannered phrasings, and lists.
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Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Rattling off his biography to Jessie, who has agreed to go out with him, Killian gives a mannered, halting speech, the words vomited rather than spoken.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2025
At formal family dinners, Garrett was polite and well mannered.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2025
As a young painter from the Bronx, studying at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, his freshman roommate is a mild-mannered student named David Lynch.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
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Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
Rattling off his biography to Jessie, who has agreed to go out with him, Killian gives a mannered, halting speech, the words vomited rather than spoken.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2025
At formal family dinners, Garrett was polite and well mannered.
—Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2025
As a young painter from the Bronx, studying at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, his freshman roommate is a mild-mannered student named David Lynch.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2025
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“Mannered.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mannered. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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mannered
adjective
man·nered
ˈman-ərd 
: having manners of a specified kind
well-mannered
mild-mannered
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