Finally, impassivity is often a yardstick of social status, displays of pain sensitivity being considered both vulgar andill-mannered.
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Even more to the point, what appears muddy andill-manneredmay on closer examination be seen as a necessary response to the constraint under which the author was working.
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I think it would be churlish andill-manneredof me to say anything further, apart from the fact that we are extremely grateful.
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I cannot help observing that that is the kind of bad-tempered andill-manneredcomment which has no place whatever in a debate of this kind.
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I do not know where it wasill-manneredand where it was inaccurate.
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People who have been soill-manneredas to inquire have been informed that the thing is going to be done by faith.
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I am the last person to say anythingill-mannered, or even critical, of a member of a local authority.
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The majority of drivers of motor vehicles on the road to-day areill-manneredwhen it comes to considering others on the road.
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An occasional intervention is one thing, but to shout from a sedentary position isill-mannered, apart from being unparliamentary.
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The whole of the speech wasill-manneredand the whole of it was inaccurate.
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Not only is itill-manneredand insensitive; it can also be dangerous for the person concerned.
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That was a perfectly legitimate but somewhatill-manneredploy.
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It surprises me that so many decent, kindly and courteous people become dangerous andill-manneredboors when they get behind the steering wheel of a car.
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I am pleased to say that complaints about discourteous orill-manneredbehaviour can be counted on the fingers of one hand over a period of some six years.
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The scheme would not be out of scale and would not commit the heinous sin of so much modern architecture of beingill-manneredto the buildings that surround it.
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