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   Ill-bred

   /ˈil ˌbred/

   

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   • 1. badly brought up or rude: "this officer was so ill-bred that he could not distinguish between claret and burgundy"

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   What does ill-bred mean?

   • Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! Can you solve 4 words at once? Get Word of the Day daily email! The meaning of ILL-BRED is badly brought up or showing bad upbringing : impolite. How to use ill-bred in a sentence.

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   What is another word for ill-bred?

   • Synonyms for ill-bred. discourteous, disrespectful, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, inconsiderate, rude, thoughtless,

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   What is excessively ill-bred?

   • All such conversation or allusion is excessively ill-bred. It is decidedly ill-bred to rob a locality of its precious plants. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

   ILL-BRED | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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   How do you know if a person is ill-bred?

   • If so, they must associate with very ill-bred persons. Some persons, in playing cards, show an effort to conceal their hand; this is ill-bred. Nothing could be more ill-bred than to treat curtly any overture made in spontaneous friendliness.

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   The meaning of ILL-BRED is badly brought up or showing bad upbringing : impolite. How to use ill-bred in a sentence.

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   adjective. old-fashioned us / ˌɪlˈbred / uk / ˌɪlˈbred / Add to word list. rude and behaving badly: an ill-bred young man. Synonym. rude. Opposite. well bred (PERSON) mainly UK. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Rude and cheeky. backchat. cheekily. cheekiness. cheeky. churlishly. churlishness. coarse-grained. fruity. gall. indelicate.

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   Ill-bred definition: showing lack of good social breeding; unmannerly; rude.. See examples of ILL-BRED used in a sentence.

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   Definitions of ill-bred. adjective. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace. synonyms: bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish. unrefined. (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth.

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   adjective. old-fashioned uk / ˌɪlˈbred / us / ˌɪlˈbred / Add to word list. rude and behaving badly: an ill-bred young man. Synonym. rude. Opposite. well bred (PERSON) mainly UK. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Rude and cheeky. backchat. cheekily. cheekiness. cheeky. churlishly. churlishness. coarse-grained. fruity. gall. indelicate.

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   2 days ago · ill-bred. adjective. If you say that someone is ill-bred, you mean that they have bad manners. [disapproval] They seemed to her rather vulgar and ill-bred. Synonyms: bad-mannered, rude, coarse, vulgar More Synonyms of ill-bred. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.

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   adj. badly brought up; lacking good manners. ˌill-ˈbreeding n. Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014. ill′-bred′. adj. showing lack of good social breeding; unmannerly.