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
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
But these reformers are apt to be underbred, irritable, with nasty peculiarities of habits and manner which they never have thought it worth while to cure.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
He had to turn away that the coarse-grained, underbred man beside him might not see too much.
From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman
Like an underbred acquaintance, they will not be denied; they are always "going your way;" and in their cruel civility they insist on bearing you company.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
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