Usually means: Rude due to poor upbringing.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word ill-bred:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. ill-bred: Merriam-Webster
  2. ill-bred: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ill-bred: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ill-bred, ill-bred: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ill-bred: Vocabulary.com
  6. ill-bred: Wordnik
  7. ill-bred: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ill-bred: Wiktionary
  9. ill-bred: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ill-bred: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ill-bred: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ill-bred, ill-bred: Dictionary.com
  13. Ill-bred: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ill-bred: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ill-bred: Rhymezone
  16. Ill-bred: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ill-bred: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. ill-bred: FreeDictionary.org
  19. ill-bred: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ill-bred: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ill-bred: Legal dictionary

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  1. ill-bred: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ill-bred)

▸ adjective:  ill-mannered and unrefined because of a lack of upbringing or education
▸ adjective:  (of animals) of bad breed

Similar:
unrefined, rude, lowbred, underbred, bounderish, yokelish, low-minded, ill-groomed, acrasial, homebred, more...

Opposite:
well-bred, refined, cultured, polished, sophisticated

Types:
vulgar, common, crude, unrefined, coarse, rough, low, more...

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Similar:
unrefined, rude, lowbred, underbred, bounderish, yokelish, low-minded, ill-groomed, acrasial, homebred, more...

Opposite:
well-bred, refined, cultured, polished, sophisticated

Types:
vulgar, common, crude, unrefined, coarse, rough, low, more...



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