To reprove a waiter is the height of ill-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference

Pushing aside another person is an act of ill-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference

''Tis but ill-breeding in such as thou to command me to speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vietnam: Solutions] Reference

It is a sign of ill-breeding to change your seat in a car or omnibus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference

“I am sorry you think so, madam,” cried Cecilia, colouring at her ill-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cecilia] Reference

Women, particularly, have a right to them; and any omission in that respect is downright ill-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

She was both ashamed and amused, -- ashamed of their ill-breeding and amused by their useless bickering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

To shout out "Waiter!" or order one about, as if you were in a restaurant, is a certain mark of ill-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.] Reference

But his voice was scarcely in accordance with his general appearance, and it was easy to detect a note of ill-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference

Mr. Henry had no doubt been extremely rude and overbearing; but in earlier years Richard had known how to behave towards ill-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Felix] Reference

Turkish soldiers, who retain their native manners, are daily reprehended by the people of Mekka for their ill-breeding in this respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Arabia] Reference

For never to be able to control passion shows a weak nature and ill-breeding; and always to moderate it is very hard, and to some impossible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

Complete and entire reform in our system of home-training of our boys and girls will go far to relieve youthful Negroes of just censure for ill-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference

This all the grave and well-bred men exceedingly admire; but soft and effeminate fellows, whose ears ignorance and ill-breeding hath corrupted, and who, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

What ruined M. de Charlus that evening was the ill-breeding — so common in their class — of the people whom he had invited and who were now beginning to arrive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captive] Reference

Rutaceæ and tansy of the Compositæ, in spite of suspension for their boldness and ill-breeding, occasionally force their way back into the domain of the leaf herbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference

Montrose flushed at the ill-breeding of his officer, and waved us away to the left on the road that led to Argile by Loch Linnhe side, and took us clear of the coming encounter.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

In a word, they are the same folly, the same childishness, the same ill-breeding, and the same ill-nature, which raise all the clamours and uproars both in life and on the stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference

Indeed, the continual wrangling and ill-breeding of Captain Mirvan and Madame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference

Mr. Sinivate, to a speedy account for his ungentlemanly conduct and ill-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4] Reference

I answered discreetly yet frankly, for there was no ill-breeding in his curiosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies] Reference

Maud bowed quite stiffly, but Agnes, taking it for ill-breeding, was not offended.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Longest Journey] Reference

Her direst thunders, however, were kept for anything which approached ill-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference

Faith! that same interruption in affairs of this nature shows very great ill-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rivals A Comedy] Reference

Pulling out your watch in company, unasked, either at home or abroad, is a mark of ill-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies] Reference

Du Bois, who, far from joining in their mirth, expressed himself extremely shocked at their ill-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World] Reference

The painter ran his hands through his hair, but stopped them half-way, as if aware that he was being guilty of ill-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint's Progress] Reference

Much ill-breeding had been shown by seekers after invitations, and there was a sad exhibition of bad manners at the supper-table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis] Reference

"In the spring the young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love," she remarked, with the fictitious ease of profound ill-breeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prophet of Berkeley Square] Reference

Rosalind flushed, and had the grace to look a trifle ashamed of her own ill-breeding, but she did not by any means appreciate the reproof.    From Wordnik.com.  [About Peggy Saville] Reference

Mr. Dodd; there is not another gentleman in the world would have had the ill-breeding to go off like that to India without even bidding us good-morning or good-by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Me Little, Love Me Long] Reference

"Oh! yes." and then I comforted him, and laid the ill-breeding on my footman's being a foreigner; but could not help saying, I really had taken his house for the sexton's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference