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ill-bred adjective [ ˌɪlˈbrɛd ]

• badly brought up or rude.
• "this officer was so ill-bred that he could not distinguish between claret and burgundy"
Similar: ill-mannered, bad-mannered, rude, unmannerly, impolite, discourteous, uncivil, boorish, churlish, loutish, vulgar, common, coarse, crass, gross, uncouth, crude, unpolished, uncivilized, ungentlemanly, unladylike, unsophisticated, unrefined, ungallant, indelicate, indecorous, unseemly, yobbish, ignorant, plebby, cloddish, common as muck,
Opposite: well bred, genteel,


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