lowbred

[loh-bred]

adjective

1. characterized by or characteristic of low or vulgar breeding; ill-bred; coarse.

   Synonyms: rude, unrefined
   Antonyms: noble

Word History and Origins

Origin of lowbred¹

First recorded in 1750–60; low ¹ + bred

Example Sentences

People will buy and read what requires no effort of mean capacities to follow, and what satisfies lowbred tastes by a standard of morality to which they can, with as little difficulty, attain.

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A worthless, lowbred scamp is named commissary general.

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Bardolph is a bravo, but great humorist; he is a lowbred, drunken swaggerer, wholly without principle, and always poor.

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We put up at the big hotel opposite the railway station, and looked and behaved like a pair of lowbred South Africans home for a spree.

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Related Words

• bawdy 
• boorish 
• crass 
• crude 
• dirty 
• gruff 
• nasty 
• obscene 
• off-color 
• raw 
• ribald 
• rude 
• scatological 
• vulgar