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ill-bred

adjective as in rugged

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To converse with an entirely uneducated person upon literature, interlarding your remarks with quotations, is ill-bred.

Such conduct is not only excessively ill-bred, but intensely selfish.

It is annoying and ill-bred to throw your soiled clothes into the family wash.

This is a breach of good-breeding often committed, and nothing can be more ill-bred.

To object to the dish itself is an insult to your entertainers, and if you assert any reason for your own dislike it is ill-bred.

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On this page you'll find 639 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ill-bred, such as: barbaric, churlish, coarse, impolite, rude, and tasteless.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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