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ill-bred

ill-bred adjective: ill-mannered and unrefined because of a lack of upbringing or education.

Adjective

ill-bred (comparative more ill-bred, superlative most ill-bred)

  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 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

ill-bred meaning in Malayalam

ill-bred in Malayalam

മര്യാദയില്ലാത്ത, സംസ്കാരശൂന്യമായ, ഹീനമായി വളർന്ന

Forms of ill-bred

comparativemore ill-bred
superlativemost ill-bred
alternative formillbred

Questions about ill-bred

What does ill-bred mean?
Ill-bred means ill-mannered and unrefined because of a lack of upbringing or education.
What is ill-bred in Malayalam?
Ill-bred in Malayalam is മര്യാദയില്ലാത്ത, സംസ്കാരശൂന്യമായ, ഹീനമായി വളർന്ന. See Ill-bred meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is ill-bred?
Ill-bred is an adjective.

Words near ill-bred in the dictionary

  1. ill-assorted
  2. ill-begotten
  3. ill-behaved
  4. ill-being
  5. ill-boding
  6. ill-bred
  7. ill-chosen
  8. ill-concealed
  9. ill-conceived
  10. ill-conditioned
  11. ill-considered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ill-bred (page history and authors); ill-bred (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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