Word Meanings - QUESTIONABLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a questionable manner.
Related words: (words related to QUESTIONABLY)
- QUESTIONABLENESS
The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - MANNERED
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 - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - QUESTIONABLE
1. Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. Shak. 2. Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; problematical; doubtful; - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - UNQUESTIONABLE
1. Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title. 2. Not inviting questions or conversation. Shak. -- Un*ques"tion*a*bly, adv. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.