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ill-bred
adjective as in boorish
adjective as in crude
adjective as in discourteous
adjective as in disrespectful
adjective as in gauche
adjective as in ill-mannered
adjective as in impolite
adjective as in indecent
Strongest matches
adjective as in loutish
adjective as in low
Strongest match
adjective as in Philistine
adjective as in rugged
adjective as in uncivilized
adjective as in uncouth
Weak matches
- awkward
- barbaric
- boorish
- cheap
- clownish
- coarse
- crass
- crude
- discourteous
- disgracious
- gawky
- graceless
- gross
- heavy-handed
- ill-mannered
- impertinent
- impolite
- inelegant
- loud
- loud-mouthed
- loutish
- oafish
- raunchy
- raw
- rough
- rude
- rustic
- strange
- tacky
- uncalled-for
- uncivil
- uncivilized
- ungainly
- ungenteel
- ungentlemanly
- unpolished
- unrefined
- unseemly
- vulgar
Example Sentences
To the victory party, apparently, go the ill-bred.
She stooped to pick them up, and as she handed them to me I saw a little smile of scorn upon her lips, and I guessed at once she considered me ill-bred.
But when her children would go out of their own court she called out, “I would have you stay away from ill-bred children!”
“The People are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred,” Whitman acknowledged, but not without the faith that the “miracle” of original identity, the “luminousness of real vision,” is within everyone’s grasp.
An ill-bred falcon, who was subject to the vice of screaming, stood hooded and motionless on a perch like a parrot’s, brooding in some ancestral nightmare.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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