Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not instructed; untaught.
- adjective Not yet bred.
- adjective Obsolete Ill-bred; impolite.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unbegot; unborn.
- Not well bred; destitute of breeding.
- Not taught or trained.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Not begotten; unborn.
- adjective Not taught or trained; -- with
to . - adjective obsolete Not well-bred; ill-bred.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Untaught oruntrained . - adjective obsolete Not
born . - adjective obsolete Not well-bred; ill-bred.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
unbreed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Veriword is "unbred", which could be a caption for the folky pic of Carolyn, Bobby, et al.
"Brave Wolfe" Fresca 2010
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The epithet 'unbred' was accredited upon the quoted sayings and doings of the pretentious young person's aunt, repeated abroad by noblemen and gentlemen present when she committed herself; and the same were absurd.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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The epithet 'unbred' was accredited upon the quoted sayings and doings of the pretentious young person's aunt, repeated abroad by noblemen and gentlemen present when she committed herself; and the same were absurd.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The epithet 'unbred' was accredited upon the quoted sayings and doings of the pretentious young person's aunt, repeated abroad by noblemen and gentlemen present when she committed herself; and the same were absurd.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868
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That said, unbred does and a certain percentage of fawns will come into an estrous cycle this month.
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That said, unbred does and a certain percentage of fawns will come into an estrous cycle this month.
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Tully, oh yes, real natural unbred for consumption turkeys can fly . . .
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They frequently learn from unbred or debauched servants, such language, untowardly tricks and vices, as otherwise they would be ignorant of all their lives.
Pamela 2006
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I had gone through the article of the tutor, as well as I could; and will now observe upon what Mr. Locke says, That children are wholly, if possible, to be kept from the conversation of the meaner servants; whom he supposes to be, as too frequently they are, unbred and debauched, to use his own words.
Pamela 2006
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I screwed up and let an unbred heifer into the same pen as the young bulls, and the reaction was immediate.
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