underbred

[uhn-der-bred]

Origin

adjective

having inferior breeding or manners; vulgar.

not of pure breed, as a horse.

Origin:
1640–50; under- + bred

Related forms

un·der·breed·ing

[uhn-der-bree-ding] , noun

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underbred (ˌʌndəˈbrɛd)

—*adj*
1.	of impure stock; not thoroughbred
2.	a less common word for ill-bred

under'breeding

—n

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underbred

"of inferior breeding, vulgar," 1650, from under + pp. of breed (v.). Of animals, "not pure bred," attested from 1890.

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"They plainly did not know how to treat me, but behaved like persons who are underbred. In every threat and in every compliment there was a blunder; for they thought that my chief desire was to stand the other side of that stone wall. I could not but smile to see how industriously they locked the door on my meditations, which followed them out again without let or hindrance, and they were really all that was dangerous. As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog. I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all remaining respect for it, and pitied it."

-Henry David Thoreau

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