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ill-bred

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ill-bred (lbrd)
adj.
1. Badly brought up; impolite and crude.
2. Not thoroughbred; underbred. Used of animals.
ill-bred
Adjective
lacking good manners
ill-breeding n
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Adj.1.ill-bredill-bred - (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
bounderish, lowbred, underbred, yokelish, rude
unrefined - (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
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Elinor was not inclined, after a little observation, to give him credit for being so genuinely and unaffectedly ill-natured or ill-bred as he wished to appear.
Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane View in context
Some of their neighbours interchanged glances, and one of them--one of the ill-bred people whom one does meet abroad--leant forward over the table and actually intruded into their argument.
A Room With A View by Forster, E. M. View in context
I bet you think I am writing all this from affectation, to be witty at the expense of men of action; and what is more, that from ill-bred affectation, I am clanking a sword like my officer.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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