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ADJECTIVE
  1. of good upbringing

How To Use well-bred In A Sentence

  • “He is a good deal embarrassed pecuniarily, I should say,” continued the curate, who was rather a good man than a very well-bred one. Uncle Silas
  • The less testing ground should suit this well-bred filly and she looks to be well weighted. The Sun
  • Daughters were expected to join their well-bred friends on the marriage market.
  • I finished my soup and sandwich, turned up the volume on my iPod, then flipped through another book, looking for sites both Patrick and I would enjoy; after all, I was supposed to be introducing him to things that “a well-bred person should know.” Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
  • If you want to keep warm while travelling (to frowst, as the open air school calls it) do not get in with well-bred Englishwomen. Dangerous Ages
  • There followed one of those discomfortable hours well known to well-bred people, when four of them are anxious upon a subject which they must not broach to the fifth, and the fifth becomes aware of this anxiety. Over the River
  • On Witte's tongue the phrase "incredibly well-bred man," which he used to describe the youthful Nicholas, became cutting invective. A Statesman For the Czar
  • I was a "trump" -- I was a "girl of the right sort" -- I was a "well-bred one" -- I had no end of "devil" in me -- I was fit to be Kate Coventry An Autobiography
  • He glanced about him at the well-bred, well-dressed men and women, and breathed into his lungs the atmosphere of culture and refinement, and at the same moment the ghost of his early youth, in stiff-rim and square-cut, with swagger and toughness, stalked across the room. Chapter 27
  • What does a well-bred balletomane do in a strange town over Christmas?
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