Could that mean Long Islanders lack good manners?

I'm starting to realize it's not only that some people don't know how to behave when travelling, they simply just lack good manners in general.

Surely, he decided, if they lack manners even at such a time as this, this is the time to speak of it.

You do not strike me as ugly, nor mis-shapen, nor lacking manners.

Now, I don't want to accuse anyone of lacking manners.

Soldiers sprang forward to do his bidding, but Seti said quietly: "Let the fellow be, friends; he lacks manners, that is all.

They may lack elegant uniforms and graceful manners, but their honesty and fidelity is unquestionable.

Mr. Qian was quoted as complaining about a Cabinet member who had "made remarks that lack good manners."

He's oblivious to insult and lacks manners or sensitivity.

He was a classical example of a brilliant man, an academic, who lacked commonsense and elementary manners.