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Underbred

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Poorly brought up; ill-bred.

adj. Of mixed breed; not thoroughbred.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. of inferior breeding

adj. lacking in manners or finesse

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of inferior breeding or manners; vulgar. Not pure-bred or -blooded: as, an underbred horse.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

adj. of inferior or mixed breed

Word Usage

"'I know it is wrong and it is cruel, and it is worse than wrong and cruel, it is what you English call underbred, to be so individually disagreeable, but this grievance of mine has been weighing very heavily on my heart, and"

Equivalent

unrefined crossbred

Antonym

thoroughbred

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

ill-bred rude uncouth impolite

Same Context

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