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ILL-BREEDING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ill-breeding mean?
• ILL-BREEDING (noun)
The noun ILL-BREEDING has 1 sense:
1. impoliteness resulting from ignorance
Familiarity information: ILL-BREEDING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Impoliteness resulting from ignorance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
bad manners; ill-breeding
Hypernyms ("ill-breeding" is a kind of...):
impoliteness (a discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage)
Context examples
Mr. Darcy looked a little ashamed of his aunt's ill-breeding, and made no answer.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The motive was too common to be wondered at; but the means, however they might succeed by establishing his superiority in ill-breeding, were not likely to attach any one to him except his wife.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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