ill-bred
adjective
showing lack of good social breeding; unmannerly; rude.
ill-breeding
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a word derived from
ill-bred.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Darcy looked a little ashamed of his aunt’s ill-breeding, and made no answer.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
It is a sign of ignorance and ill-breeding to haggle over the price of a thing and try to induce the seller to take less for it.
From Lessons on Manners For School and Home Use by Edith E. Wiggin
If you write them, never first draw a line across the card to guide you,—it betokens ill-breeding.
From A Hand-book of Etiquette for Ladies by Anonymous
Drawer:" "There is no better evidence of ill-breeding than the practice of interrupting another in conversation while speaking, or commencing a remark before another has fully closed.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
All the actors had at length successively announced themselves to Wilhelm; asking introductory letters, requiring money for their journey with more or less impatience and ill-breeding, and constantly receiving it, against Philina's will.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
