Sentence example with the word 'underbred'

underbred

Definition adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace

Last update: September 9, 2015


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We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.   [Please select]

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Science stands as a too competent servant behind her wrangling, underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use.   [Please select]

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Gresley, who was sitting down, "that that noisy boor, that underbred, foul-mouthed Dick Vernon wanted to marry her."   [Please select]

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The kick was returned with vigor, and Catherine said in an earnest though deliberate voice: "Why are expressions of rapture underbred."   [Please select]

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"Catherine, how often, how very often have I told you that expressions of rapture such as you have just given way to are underbred."   [Please select]

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Alexander’s feelings for Napoleon had always been of a very mixed sort; he envied Napoleon as a rival, and despised him as an underbred upstart.   [Please select]

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