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单词 underbred
释义
underbred
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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 EXAMPLES
Virginia 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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