Goodnatured vs Mannerly - What's the difference?
goodnatured | mannerly | Related terms |
polite, having good manners
* 1593, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona
* 1861, Charlotte Yonge, The Young Step-Mother
As adjectives the difference between goodnatured and mannerly
is that goodnatured is an alternative spelling of lang=en while mannerly is polite, having good manners.mannerly
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Lucetta, as thou lov'st me, let me have / What thou think'st meet, and is most mannerly .
- ...but Genevieve's laugh roused her again, partly because she thought it less mannerly than accorded with the girl's usual politeness.