Background and Manners

Background

Background noun - The physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewed.

Manners and background are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Manners" instead a noun "Background".

Manners

Manners noun - Social deportment.
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Synonyms for Manners

Background and manners are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Background" instead a noun "Manners".

Both words in one sentence

  • Too Hungry to Be Polite Jarman is from a rural background and wasn't taught proper table manners.
  • Dishing Out Dirt Some of the Ravener's abilities are named in manners that imply this, but their background does not mention such abilities what so ever, so the in-game abilities may very well just be named for Rule of Cool.
  • Comicbook / Red Skull Probably accidental, but fits the character's background as a former Lower-Class Lout who has acquired his cultured sophistication as an adult: When he's thrown off balance, his old dockworker manners slip through.
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