Madam Moria spoke softly, but testily, a grandma directing an ill-mannered child.

It was a shame what those ill-mannered children did to his project, but then, we really didn't have any practice at dealing with sculpture.

It was astonishing what Tabitha's arrival to join the household did--Heather changed from a rebellious and ill-mannered child almost overnight.

First and business classes are coach with warm nuts - filled with slovenly adults and ill-mannered children.

Gerald of Wales said that the Irish then complained to their overlords - men such as Rory O'Connor - of how John was, "an ill-mannered child.

"When I'm in the studio with people, I have to be the host; I have to be politer," he said in a tone one might use with a rather ill-mannered child.

The Pale Woman sighed, as exasperated as if interrupted by an ill-mannered child.

But they were shut out, listening at a door to words not meant for them: ill-mannered children or stupid servants overhearing the elusive discourse of their elders, and wondering how it would affect their lot.

You're nothing but a pack of nitwitted, ill-mannered children!

In any other instance, the Deputy Chief and the Director of Operations standing at C's desk while C himself railed at them from his chair would have been the perfect portrait of subordinate reinforcement, more akin to the dressing-down of ill-mannered children than not.