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Meanings of ill-bred in English
Synonyms
Examples for "rude"
Examples for "rude"
1
It's really rude. It wasn't the first time Bono has said sorry.
2
He pointed in turn to the rude ornamentation in the shell clasp.
3
It is possible, of course, that she was just being plain rude.
4
Haven't I watched Kate field this question from hundreds of rude people?
5
This unreasonable speculation is a rude contempt toward Chinese law, it said.
1
She pronounced the quiet little painter a pert, little, obtrusive, underbred creature.
2
What he was doing, he told himself, was extremely ungentlemanly, horribly underbred.
3
No timidity or prudery or underbred doubts about this thorough creature.
4
It was, somehow, so underbred to owe money to all sorts of people.
5
They seem to me to be underbred, of a different sort.
1
"No, thanks," said Josh, in his most bustlingly-bounderish manner.
Usage of ill-bred in English
1
The characteristics of the ill-bred man are just the contrary of these.
2
It makes one appear to be ill-bred and extremely distasteful in society.
3
They were the most ill-bred of mankind-theservant caste-madeslaves by nature.
4
He is singularly stupid and ill-bred to meddle in such a matter.
5
Paul felt for the instant that he had been brutal and ill-bred.
6
But habitual, cold-blooded, and willful ill-temper-thetrade-markof unmitigated selfishness-isindisputably ill-bred.
7
They are not ill-natured, although they are vulgar and usually rather ill-bred.
8
He is not always elbowing his way, or quivering with ill-bred impatience.
9
Furthermore, she was ill-bred, gluttonous, sensual, arrogant, a Levantine jewel in perfection.
10
That's what will happen if you do anything as ill-bred as that.
11
I'm not only ill-bred on the outside, I'm that way clear through.
12
If my fellow-townsmen are stupid and ill-bred, need I follow their example?
13
Besides, I do not like to be told that I am ill-bred!
14
The man looked angry, and Mr. Bosengate thought: 'An ill-bred dog, that!'
15
But they are very ill-bred and unpolished in the western country.
16
Never look back after any one passing; it is extremely ill-bred.
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