(Of persons) lacking in refinement or grace.
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.
6 In the end he grows nasty, and from the first he is disgustingly underbred .
7 All the same, it is in very bad taste and excessively underbred of her.
8 While the breaker flogs up on a green underbred one
9 Many make a large fortune, who remain underbred and pathetically stupid to the last.
10 A trifle underbred , too, or she would not insist so much on her breeding.
11 No one is more intolerable than an underbred civilian.
12 The wood thrush has none of theses underbred traits.
13 Only a very underbred , thick-skinned person would attempt it.
14 What right has that little underbred girl to bring an illegitimate life into the world?
15 The actors were not so much vulgar as underbred ; their ambitions and tastes were often deplorable.
16 An uneducated, underbred , and underfed propertyless man is a man who has lost the possibility of liberty.
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