If so, they must associate with very ill-bred persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
She would be bluff and rude and ungrammatical and ill-bred. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
"All right" is not, to say the least, civil, and is ill-bred. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men] Reference
You interrupt what they're saying, which is ill-bred, you know. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Kitty's Stories] Reference
Paul felt for the instant that he had been brutal and ill-bred. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
It is decidedly ill-bred to rob a locality of its precious plants. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
I could not have been more clumsy, more ill-bred, or more unfortunate. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The characteristics of the ill-bred man are just the contrary of these. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
She was not hurt over the ill-bred manner in which she had been treated. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore] Reference
And a pretty lot of ill-bred, miserable ignoramuses they were — the indigent!. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
It is extremely ill-bred, though extremely common, to press one to eat of anything. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
There was an instant's strained silence, then the ill-bred young woman found her voice. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
He knew she would think him ill-bred, he was ashamed of himself, but he could not help it. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
Dissembling is downright Lying; that kind of it which is less ill-bred cometh pretty near it. From Wordnik.com. [Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles] Reference
'Mr. Armstrong,' said Claudia, 'I have never seen you display this ill-bred brutality before. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
"The child is so ill-bred she can be but indulged and spoiled at home," and Mrs. Weston agreed. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference
This led me to make some remarks the next morning on the manners of well-bred and ill-bred people. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference
Should he neglect to announce himself in this way he is considered as ill-bred -- an unmannerly boor. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.] Reference
Iolchos were exceedingly ill-bred to take such public notice of an accidental deficiency in his dress. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
It is ill-bred, though common, to press any one to eat; and, moreover, it is a great annoyance to many. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
And surely any individual who chooses to be idle rather than to be usefully employed, is exceedingly ill-bred. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
The Cockney School was composed of Londoners of the middle-class, supposedly ill-bred and imperfectly educated. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
Charlotte, who told him that it was exceedingly ill-bred to inconvenience other people by habitual unpunctuality. From Wordnik.com. [Austin and His Friends] Reference
Why, Minnie darling, you must know that such things are very, very ill-bred, and very, very indelicate and unrefined. From Wordnik.com. [The American Baron] Reference
By doing it well, he may help to kindle a flame in a lady's heart; at all events, to do it bunglingly would be ill-bred. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
A miserable lad, ill-bred, who had once been in Boston, thought it would sound well to call for me, and peeped out, "Ingham!". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
The horrified Wang called the risk of such an ill-bred display at the 2008 Games "a problem Beijing cannot afford to ignore.". From Wordnik.com. [GAMES AND GRIEVANCES] Reference
It mattered nothing to these ill-bred Starkweather girls that the serving people heard how they treated this "poor relation.". From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
"My mother says it is extremely ill-bred to indulge in comments on a person's personal appearance," declared Rosemary heatedly. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
And, some time before, Themistocles, upon refusing the harp at an entertainment, passed for an uninstructed and ill-bred person. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
"These kids are so appallingly ill-bred," Peter said of certain players, though there were few around this late in the tournament. From Wordnik.com. [Tennis Frat Boy for a Day] Reference
Ada Wilson has certainly shown herself very ill-bred and heartless in thus criticising so old a person to one of her own relatives. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls] Reference
Some ill-bred women, in order to show their power, even insult and ill treat the people who have accepted their proffered hospitality. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
If Mrs. Curtis could have signaled to Madge, she would not have permitted her to humiliate herself by an apology to this ill-bred girl. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
There are some very pretty, but, unhappily, very ill-bred women, who don't understand the law of the road with regard to handsome faces. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
He lifted abruptly his handsome masculine head, looked round the ring of his ill-bred visitors with a haughty stare of rebuke and surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
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