ill-bred

[il-bred]

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adjective

showing lack of good social breeding; unmannerly; rude.

Origin of ill-bred

First recorded in 1615–25

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Related Words for ill-bred

improper, salacious, pornographic, tasteless, lewd, off-color, unseemly, filthy, outrageous, ridiculous, vile, shocking, immoral, unbecoming, rough, boorish, barbarous, rude, disrespectful, vulgar

Examples from the Web for ill-bred

Historical Examples of ill-bred

It was considered (as on shore) ill-bred to acknowledge the voice of conscience.
The Uncommercial Traveller
Charles Dickens
Paul felt for the instant that he had been brutal and ill-bred.
Despair's Last Journey
David Christie Murray
She was not hurt over the ill-bred manner in which she had been treated.
Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore
Pauline Lester
She knew him quite well for an ill-bred little snob at heart.
The Highgrader
William MacLeod Raine
Still she need not have spoken in that angry tone, and called her “ill-bred.”
In the Mist of the Mountains
Ethel Turner

British Dictionary definitions for ill-bred

ill-bred

adjective

badly brought up; lacking good manners

Derived Formsill-breeding, noun

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