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underbred

/uhn-der-bred/US // ˌʌn dərˈbrɛd //UK // (ˌʌndəˈbrɛd) //

饲养不足,饲养不足的,培育不足,饲养不足的人

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having inferior breeding or manners; vulgar.
    • : not of pure breed, as a horse.

Examples

  • An uneducated, underbred, and underfed propertyless man is a man who has lost the possibility of liberty.

  • She is forward, affected, and underbred; and her character is somewhat—never mind what.

  • This was what came of allowing oneself to become familiar with an underbred stranger!

  • I need scarcely say that he met the dignified rebuke such underbred observations merited.

  • I should be sorry for him myself—if only he were not such an underbred beast!