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ill-bred en · ADJ

Meanings

1. ill-mannered and unrefined because of a lack of upbringing or education
   • 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... 2009, Douglas Blackburn, Secret Service in South Africa:
2. (of animals) of bad breed
   • 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. 1976, Valentin Kataev, A Mosaic of Life Or, The Magic Horn of Oberon: Memoirs of a Russian Childhood, page 180:

Forms

Translations (8)

sv ouppfostrad (ill-mannered and unrefined) · uk неви́хований (ill-mannered and unrefined) · es maleducado (ill-mannered and unrefined) · az qanmaz (ill-mannered and unrefined) · bg невъзпитан (ill-mannered and unrefined) · ota تربیهسز (ill-mannered and unrefined) · az tərbiyəsiz (ill-mannered and unrefined) · el απαιδαγώγητος (ill-mannered and unrefined)