underbreeding

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English

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Verb

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underbreeding

  1. present participle and gerund of underbreed

Noun

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underbreeding (uncountable)

  1. A lack of manners or sophistication.
    • 1916, Princess Eleanor Hulda Calhoun Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich, Pleasures and Palaces:
      It was considered the acme of underbreeding to manifest any sense whatever of patronage in such deeds.
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