Usually means: Showing good sense; judicious, prudent.
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  1. menseful: Merriam-Webster
  2. menseful: Collins English Dictionary
  3. menseful: Wordnik
  4. menseful: Wiktionary
  5. Menseful, menseful: Dictionary.com
  6. menseful: FreeDictionary.org

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▸ adjective:  (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Decorous; mannerly; respectful and worth of respect.

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mannersome, mannerable, decorous, mannerly, gradely, well-mannered, proper, polite, genteel, dignified, more...

Opposite:
unmannerly, rude, impolite, discourteous, uncivil

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Similar:
mannersome, mannerable, decorous, mannerly, gradely, well-mannered, proper, polite, genteel, dignified, more...

Opposite:
unmannerly, rude, impolite, discourteous, uncivil



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