ill-bred
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English
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[edit]ill-bred (comparative more ill-bred, superlative most ill-bred)
- ill-mannered and unrefined because of a lack of upbringing or education
- 2009, Douglas Blackburn, Secret Service in South Africa:
- It is, therefore, quite believable that many of these secret agents were as blunderful and tactless as any ill-bred son of the soil could be...
- (of animals) of bad breed
- 1976, Valentin Kataev, A Mosaic of Life Or, The Magic Horn of Oberon: Memoirs of a Russian Childhood, page 180:
- On the night in question, the whole house was awakened by a dreadful cats'-concert. Two or three of the gang of ill-bred, shabby cats that ran wild over the brick roofs of our town were sitting on the general's terrace screaming at the top of their repulsive voices.
Translations
[edit]ill-mannered and unrefined
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