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highbred

/hahy-bred/US // ˈhaɪˌbrɛd //

高血统,高血统的人,高种群,高血统的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of superior breed.
    • : characteristic of superior breeding: highbred manners.

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Examples

  • He brushed around Von Rosen out in the kitchen, and mewed a little, delicate, highbred mew.

  • Now, if you buy a highbred animal, and pay a fancy price, it goes under at the least little thing.

  • Miss Emily in her high bed, her Bible and spectacles on the stand beside her, her starched pillows, her soft and highbred voice?

  • "Uncommonly highbred looking fellow, Shotover," he said to himself.

  • If he lets himself down to the comprehension of the illiterate, the highbred city folks may say: "He is beneath his calling."