bad manners

1. 1.

   impoliteness resulting from ignorance

   Synonymsill-breeding

   Broaderimpoliteness

Questions about bad manners

What does bad manners mean?

bad manners means "impoliteness resulting from ignorance".

What is another word for bad manners?

Close synonyms include ill-breeding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bad manners a common word?

bad manners is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.