highbred
Americanadjective
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of superior breed.
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characteristic of superior breeding.
highbred manners.
Etymology
Origin of highbred
Example Sentences
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In the park, my mutt played on equal turf with highbred wolfhounds and common pit bulls.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 31, 2016
They acquired some highbred mares and started breeding.
From Washington Times • May 10, 2015
He described 19th-century “path-makers,” highbred gentlemen who spent summers armchair-engineering intricate paths around Mount Desert Island’s barren 1,500-foot peaks, glacial lakes and ironbound shoreline.
From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2014
“It matches nothing and goes with everything,” added Veronica Miele Beard, her partner in the three-year-old fashion house that courts, evenhandedly, young Uptown matrons, turbo-powered corporate strivers and highbred urban gypsies.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2013
Meg, as became a highbred horse, positively refused to pass the unclean thing, or even to come within twenty yards of it.
From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)
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