Ill-bred

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ill-bred \Ill"-bred`\, a.
     Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See
     Note under {Ill}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  ill-bred
       adj : (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace [syn: {bounderish},
              {lowbred}, {rude}, {underbred}, {yokelish}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "ill-bred":
     Gothic, Neanderthal, animal, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous,
     bestial, boorish, brutal, brutish, caddish, coarse, crude,
     impolite, inconsiderate, insensitive, loutish, louty, nasty,
     noncivilized, offensive, outlandish, primitive, rough-and-ready,
     savage, tactless, troglodytic, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed,
     uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unfeminine, ungenteel, ungentle,
     ungentlemanly, unkempt, unladylike, unlicked, unpolished,
     unrefined, unsolicitous, untamed, vulgar, wild