Verb
The word is derived from breed
imp. & p. p. of Breed.
of Breed
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. Oscar Wilde
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. Jonathan Swift
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. Douglas MacArthur
As sluttish and slatternly as an Irishwoman bred in France . Irish Proverb
A leopard's spots: or, what is bred in the babe will come out in the flesh. Afghan Proverb
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. English Proverb