underbred
Americanadjective
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having inferior breeding or manners; vulgar.
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not of pure breed, as a horse.
adjective
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of impure stock; not thoroughbred
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a less common word for ill-bred
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“It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
She ordered me about in public, and I loved her so much that I obeyed her, and did not regard her behaviour as the least underbred or vulgar.
From A Knight on Wheels by Ian Hay
We may surely recognise the folly and underbred parade of Mr. John Thorpe in Mr. Tom Musgrave’s speech.
From Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History by Sir Francis Darwin
But none of these talents overcame the sad fact that Wolf was not a show dog and that he looked positively underbred and shabby alongside of his sire or of Bruce.
From Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
Why, on top of her experience of bearleading a brace of utterly uninteresting and unengaging children—and being at the beck and call of their detestable underbred mother, this was ideal.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford
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