单词 | underbred |
释义 | underbred (once / 36035 pages) adj WORD FAMILY bred: ill-bred, underbred+/breed: bred, breeded, breeder, breeding, breeds, crossbreed, interbreed/breeder: breeders/breeding: breedings, ill-breeding, inbreeding/crossbreed: crossbred, crossbreeding, crossbreeds/inbreeding: inbreedings/interbreed: interbred, interbreeding, interbreeds USAGE EXAMPLESVirginia Woolf called it an “illiterate, underbred” book. New York Times(Jun 16, 2015) “Genius it has I think; but of the inferior water… . It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense.” The New Yorker(Nov 10, 2014) "Is he a small, foppish man, full of monstrous airs and graces, and--and rather underbred?" Weyman, Stanley John, Sophia—A Romance(2012) 1adj of inferior or mixed breed an underbred dog Syn crossbred bred from parents of different varieties or species 2adj (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace Syn bounderish, ill-bred, lowbred, rude, yokelish unrefined (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth |
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