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ill-bred

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1. ill-bred - Adjective

2. ill-bred - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See Note under Ill, adv.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred. Walter Raleigh

It was the old New York way of taking life "without effusion of blood": the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes," except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them. Edith Wharton

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor. Margaret Mitchell

To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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