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ill-bred

adjectiveC1leans spoken

Ill-bred means badly brought up and lacking manners. An ill-bred remark.

It blames the upbringing rather than the person, which was once the whole point of saying it. Ill-bred is now archaic and carries the class assumptions of the age that used it.

Definitions of ill-bred

  1. 1adjectiveill-bredBadly brought up and lacking manners.C1

    “It was thought ill-bred to mention money at all.”

ill-bred is a quality.

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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