How To Use Ill-bred In A Sentence

  • Governor Darling regarded Wentworth as ‘a vulgar ill-bred fellow, utterly unconscious of the common civilities, due from one Gentleman to another’.
  • If you are curious enough to follow -- which would be extremely ill-bred -- you may witness under the trees of the "alameda," or some unfrequented quarter, the forbidden "_entrevista_. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico
  • Somalin yelled, ‘I'm paying for you, ill-bred brat!’
  • Clemens spent most of his time at the opening session observing a particularly ill-bred Washoe delegate, “Colonel” Jonathan Williams, eating an eighteen-pound raw turnip at his desk while simultaneously ushering through committee a sinuous new bill for a toll road that stretched conveniently from one tollhouse to another. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
  • Would you be kind enough to go back on deck and tell Kay that I said she's an uncultivated, ill-bred sybarite?
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  • For they are vacuous, ill-bred fools who know less about video games than they do about recording interesting music.
  • What exactly would make a ill-bred girl such as yourself so blissful?
  • Mother Brigitta found opportunity for various marginal notes, which indicated her displeasure at the boldness of this ill-bred fop.
  • Too little attention to breeding leads to the jungle of the Price household at Portsmouth - with its stravaiging pack of ‘ill-bred’ young dogs.
  • Since ‘any ill-bred person threatened to undermine everyone else's claims to gentility, such rudeness had to be banned from polite social intercourse’.
  • Some critics have noted that Cowley may have drawn her idea of Letitia posing as an ill-bred rustic from Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, but if she did, she gave the plot device a major twist.
  • Aunt Kirrith says it's very ill-bred to want to dig your own cave---" She stopped suddenly and whispered," Dog? LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
  • Except, wait, what the hell does it mean for a word to be “ill-bred”? Accept the invite « Motivated Grammar
  • We have seen a gentleman at the end of a round dance escort a lady to a seat, retaining his arm about her waist, but he was very verdant, or very ill-bred.
  • I told him he was ill-mannered and ill-bred and unappreciative of Mr. Purcel, who works hard on behalf of his clients. The Glass Rainbow
  • Sleep through that, and you could still be woken early by magpies clattering along the corrugated rooftop like Cajun washboard-players, or an ill-bred bluetit noisily investigating the eaves. Wildwood
  • He makes Eduardo and Hernandez look like the scrappy, ill-bred urchins they are.
  • Would you be kind enough to go back on deck and tell Kay that I said she's an uncultivated, ill-bred sybarite?
  • I am really quite disturbed by the fanaticism and intolerance shown by these ill-bred youths.
  • It is extremely ill-bred, though extremely common, to press one to eat of anything.
  • You may insult me because I accept you are ill-bred and ignorant!
  • He may be right on the issue, but it's so ill-bred for him to bring it up.
  • But she is much mortified by her vulgar grandmother Mme Duval, her ill-bred relatives, and the pursuit of her bold and persistent lover Sir Clement Willoughby.
  • The vulgarity is not _the_ vulgarity of the vulgar -- the inelegancy is not the spontaneous rudeness of the ill-bred -- any more than its doctrine of nature is the doctrine of the unlearned. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
  • These ill-bred people have to be shot… and we will shoot them.
  • Clemens spent most of his time at the opening session observing a particularly ill-bred Washoe delegate, “Colonel” Jonathan Williams, eating an eighteen-pound raw turnip at his desk while simultaneously ushering through committee a sinuous new bill for a toll road that stretched conveniently from one tollhouse to another. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
  • It is only the ill-bred, that is, the uncultivated imagination that will amuse itself where it ought to worship and work. A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare
  • I'm sure she could take them, but I'd still feel uneasy if obnoxious dopes with ill-bred intentions were within a twenty foot distance from her.
  • Am I here because they ' ve Seen me die and I have to dig my own cave because I'm ill-bred ? LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
  • People who call others weirdo simply because of their beliefs, are both ill-bred and stupid.
  • Indeed, it is the rudists who have suffered from a singular lack of courtesy from ill-bred geologists, who rejoice in pointing out that rudist masses are not really ‘reefs.’
  • As a schoolgirl, she was the butt of taunts by ill-bred bullies.
  • There are many ill-bred crooks and criminals out there who try to install malicious software and scripts on unsuspecting web surfers.
  • I plan on rubbing this in for a while as an object lesson to others who consider a career as an ill-bred shill. Sen. Bob Bennett (R, UT) will not be re-elected. | RedState
  • Since any ill-bred person threatened to undermine everyone else's claims to gentility, such rudeness had to be banned from polite social intercourse.
  • I apologized profusely and explained that I was an American who was not only rude but clearly ill-bred. An American Wine Lover in Paris
  • These kids are so appallingly ill-bred," Peter said of certain players, though there were few around this late in the tournament. Tennis Frat Boy for a Day
  • You silly, awkward, ill-bred country sow," quoth one, "have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus that has saved that clod-pated numskulled ninny-hammer of yours from ruin, and all his family? History of John Bull
  • In the eyes of many Chinese, kitchens, especially public ones, can be associated with bloody slaughtering, pungent smells and ill-bred shouting.
  • How could some ill-bred warlord from a thousand leagues away see things so clearly? TREASON KEEP
  • But I see him for what he is, a nasty, ill-bred creature who thinks he's great. Mark J. Hulkower, prosecutor in Aldrich Ames spy case, dies at 53
  • Now you know what it feels like to have your property defiled by ill-bred scum.
  • No one was ill-bred enough to refer to the matter then, or during dinner. LORD OF THE SILENT

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