Usually means: Raised with good manners, values.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. well brought up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. well-brought-up, well-brought-up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. well-brought-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. well-brought-up, well brought up: Wiktionary
  5. well-brought-up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. well-brought up: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Alternative form of well-brought-up [Having been taught during childhood to exhibit good manners and pleasant behaviour.]

Similar:
well-brought-up, well-bred, well-behaved, well-mannered, well-thewed, well-groomed, correct, polite, good, well-thought-of, more...

Opposite:
ill-mannered, uncivilized, impolite, rude, disrespectful

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Similar:
well-brought-up, well-bred, well-behaved, well-mannered, well-thewed, well-groomed, correct, polite, good, well-thought-of, more...

Opposite:
ill-mannered, uncivilized, impolite, rude, disrespectful

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for well brought up, more...



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