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单词 ill-bred
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Definition of ill-bred in English:

ill-bred

adjectiveˌɪlˈbrɛdˈɪl ˈˌbrɛd
  • Badly brought up or rude.

    缺乏教养的,粗鲁的

    this officer was so ill-bred that he could not distinguish between claret and burgundy
    ill-bred behaviour
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We have seen a gentleman at the end of a round dance escort a lady to a seat, retaining his arm about her waist, but he was very verdant, or very ill-bred.
    • He may be right on the issue, but it's so ill-bred for him to bring it up.
    • In the eyes of many Chinese, kitchens, especially public ones, can be associated with bloody slaughtering, pungent smells and ill-bred shouting.
    • There are many ill-bred crooks and criminals out there who try to install malicious software and scripts on unsuspecting web surfers.
    • For they are vacuous, ill-bred fools who know less about video games than they do about recording interesting music.
    • These ill-bred people have to be shot… and we will shoot them.
    • Now you know what it feels like to have your property defiled by ill-bred scum.
    • I am really quite disturbed by the fanaticism and intolerance shown by these ill-bred youths.
    • What exactly would make a ill-bred girl such as yourself so blissful?
    • Indeed, it is the rudists who have suffered from a singular lack of courtesy from ill-bred geologists, who rejoice in pointing out that rudist masses are not really ‘reefs.’
    • Somalin yelled, ‘I'm paying for you, ill-bred brat!’
    • He makes Eduardo and Hernandez look like the scrappy, ill-bred urchins they are.
    • Some critics have noted that Cowley may have drawn her idea of Letitia posing as an ill-bred rustic from Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, but if she did, she gave the plot device a major twist.
    • It is extremely ill-bred, though extremely common, to press one to eat of anything.
    • You may insult me because I accept you are ill-bred and ignorant!
    • Would you be kind enough to go back on deck and tell Kay that I said she's an uncultivated, ill-bred sybarite?
    • Since ‘any ill-bred person threatened to undermine everyone else's claims to gentility, such rudeness had to be banned from polite social intercourse’.
    • People who call others weirdo simply because of their beliefs, are both ill-bred and stupid.
    • But she is much mortified by her vulgar grandmother Mme Duval, her ill-bred relatives, and the pursuit of her bold and persistent lover Sir Clement Willoughby.
    • As a schoolgirl, she was the butt of taunts by ill-bred bullies who railed at her as a ‘retard.’
    Synonyms
    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
    informal yobbish, ignorant, plebby, cloddish
    British informal common as muck

Derivatives

  • ill breeding

  • noun
    mass noun
    • Lack of manners; rudeness.

      her remarks were the height of ill breeding and impropriety
      While the men continued to show their ill breeding with their manner of speaking, Keira and Melissa were open but polite.

Definition of ill-bred in US English:

ill-bred

adjectiveˈil ˈˌbredˈɪl ˈˌbrɛd
  • Badly brought up or rude.

    缺乏教养的,粗鲁的

    this officer was so ill-bred that he could not distinguish between claret and burgundy
    ill-bred behavior
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For they are vacuous, ill-bred fools who know less about video games than they do about recording interesting music.
    • Would you be kind enough to go back on deck and tell Kay that I said she's an uncultivated, ill-bred sybarite?
    • He makes Eduardo and Hernandez look like the scrappy, ill-bred urchins they are.
    • It is extremely ill-bred, though extremely common, to press one to eat of anything.
    • People who call others weirdo simply because of their beliefs, are both ill-bred and stupid.
    • Since ‘any ill-bred person threatened to undermine everyone else's claims to gentility, such rudeness had to be banned from polite social intercourse’.
    • Now you know what it feels like to have your property defiled by ill-bred scum.
    • We have seen a gentleman at the end of a round dance escort a lady to a seat, retaining his arm about her waist, but he was very verdant, or very ill-bred.
    • There are many ill-bred crooks and criminals out there who try to install malicious software and scripts on unsuspecting web surfers.
    • As a schoolgirl, she was the butt of taunts by ill-bred bullies who railed at her as a ‘retard.’
    • You may insult me because I accept you are ill-bred and ignorant!
    • In the eyes of many Chinese, kitchens, especially public ones, can be associated with bloody slaughtering, pungent smells and ill-bred shouting.
    • Some critics have noted that Cowley may have drawn her idea of Letitia posing as an ill-bred rustic from Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, but if she did, she gave the plot device a major twist.
    • He may be right on the issue, but it's so ill-bred for him to bring it up.
    • These ill-bred people have to be shot… and we will shoot them.
    • Indeed, it is the rudists who have suffered from a singular lack of courtesy from ill-bred geologists, who rejoice in pointing out that rudist masses are not really ‘reefs.’
    • I am really quite disturbed by the fanaticism and intolerance shown by these ill-bred youths.
    • What exactly would make a ill-bred girl such as yourself so blissful?
    • But she is much mortified by her vulgar grandmother Mme Duval, her ill-bred relatives, and the pursuit of her bold and persistent lover Sir Clement Willoughby.
    • Somalin yelled, ‘I'm paying for you, ill-bred brat!’
    Synonyms
    ill-mannered, bad-mannered, rude, unmannerly, impolite, discourteous, uncivil
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