ill-bred

adj — 2 senses

ill-bred

adj
1

ill-mannered and unrefined because of a lack of upbringing or education

  • It is, therefore, quite believable that many of these secret agents were as blunderful and tactless as any ill-bred son of the soil could be...2009, Douglas Blackburn, Secret Service in South Africa:
2

Of animals of bad breed

  • On the night in question, the whole house was awakened by a dreadful cats'-concert. Two or three of the gang of ill-bred, shabby cats that ran wild over the brick roofs of our town were sitting on the general's terrace screaming at the top of their repulsive voices.1976, Valentin Kataev, A Mosaic of Life Or, The Magic Horn of Oberon: Memoirs of a Russian Childhood, page 180:

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