[ adj ] having unnatural mannerisms <adj.all> brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom
Mannered \Man"nered\, a. 1. Having a certain way, esp. a polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self; as, a well-mannered child.
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 is in some degree mannered and confined. --Hazlitt.
They may have invited the academicians to their house, but now aren't well mannered enough to make some introductions.
He is the opposite of a mannered player. The programme went backwards in time from the Four Romantic Pieces, Op.
Newley himself, a mannered and limited performer, likes to sing with slouched posture, his shoulders lopsided and hunched and his eyes shut.
Washington's tyrant is more mannered than monstrous.
It is, on the whole, sung with urgency and considerable style by Mariana Nicolesco, Paolo Coni and Giuseppe Morino, a mannered tenor with a seductive vibrato.