ill-bred
showing lack of good social breeding; unmannerly; rude.
Origin of ill-bred
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How to use ill-bred in a sentence
To converse with an entirely uneducated person upon literature, interlarding your remarks with quotations, is ill-bred.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleySuch conduct is not only excessively ill-bred, but intensely selfish.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyIt is annoying and ill-bred to throw your soiled clothes into the family wash.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyThis is a breach of good-breeding often committed, and nothing can be more ill-bred.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyTo object to the dish itself is an insult to your entertainers, and if you assert any reason for your own dislike it is ill-bred.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence Hartley
British Dictionary definitions for ill-bred
badly brought up; lacking good manners
Derived forms of ill-bred
- ill-breeding, noun
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