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PRONUNCIATION OF ILL-BRED

ill-bred play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ILL-BRED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ill-Bred is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ILL-BRED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ill-bred in the English dictionary

The definition of ill-bred in the dictionary is badly brought up; lacking good manners.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ILL-BRED

ill-advised
ill-advisedly
ill-affected
ill-assorted
ill-behaved
ill-breeding
ill-concealed
ill-conceived
ill-considered
ill-defined
ill-disposed
ill-equipped
ill-fated
ill-favored
ill-favoredly
ill-favoured
ill-favouredly
ill-feeling
ill-fitting
ill-formed

WORDS THAT END LIKE ILL-BRED

bred
captive-bred
country-bred
crossbred
highbred
homebred
inbred
incrossbred
interbred
linebred
outbred
overbred
purebred
saddlebred
standard-bred
thoroughbred
true-bred
unbred
underbred
well-bred

Synonyms and antonyms of ill-bred in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ILL-BRED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ill-bred» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ill-bred

Translation of «ill-bred» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ILL-BRED

Find out the translation of ill-bred to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ill-bred from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ill-bred» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

没有教养
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mal educado
570 millions of speakers

English

ill-bred
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

असभ्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سوء تربيتها -
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

невоспитанный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mal-educado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অশিষ্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mal élevé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kurang ajar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schlecht erzogen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

病気に育ち
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

아픈 자란
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gerah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mất dạy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தவறான களையப்பட்டன
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गैर-प्रजनन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

terbiyesiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ill - bred
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

źle wychowany
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

невихований
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prost crescut -
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κακοανατεθραμένος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onopgevoed
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ill -bred
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uoppdragne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ill-bred

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ILL-BRED»

The term «ill-bred» is normally little used and occupies the 114.528 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ILL-BRED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «ill-bred» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «ill-bred» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ill-bred

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ILL-BRED»

Discover the use of ill-bred in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ill-bred and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Storm Clouds Over Party Shoes: Etiquette for the Ill-bred Woman
A satire of self-improvement books for women from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s is accompanied by the author's retro images
Sheila Norgate, 1997
2
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
... to be a good match: ill-assorted furniture c an ill-assorted couple ill-bred /.il' bred/ adjective old-fashioned rude and behaving badly: an ill-bred young man ill- conceived /,il.kan'si:vd/ adjective badly planned and unwise: The whole project was ...
‎2008
3
Means and Ends: Or Self-training
It is ill-bred to push your way through a crowd, hitting one here, and jostling another there. It is ill-bred in any company to take the best seat, or so to accommodate yourself as to seem regardless of the comfort of others. It is ill-bred while ...
Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1839
4
Pansegrouw's Crossword Dictionary
... unsuitable, unsuited ill at ease anxious, awkward, disturbed, edgy, embarrassed, fidgety, hesitant, nervous, restless, unquiet, unsure ill-balanced lopsided ill-bred brusque, crude, disrespectful, ill-mannered, impolite, impudent, inconsiderate, ...
Louisa Pansegrouw, 1994
5
Old Gods Die Hard
North the lakes and rivers freeze in winter and the fish run deep beneath the ice Nature's haven from hungering hawks and hovering eagles ill-bred to scarcity winter's will to sanctuary and the whims of change their favorite meals swim safely ...
Edwin Millet, 2008
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
adjective she was unlikely to be amused by ill-bred behaviour: ill-mannered, bad- mannered, rude, unmannerly, impolite, discourteous, uncivil; boorish, churlish, loutish, vulgar, common, coarse, crass, gross, uncouth, crude, unpolished, ...
Maurice Waite, 2009
7
Christian Charity Explained: Or, The Influence of Religion ...
Even that people who profess to be above all worldly forms, and are generally stiff enough, yet are rarely found to be rude, uncivil, or ill bred." There is much good sense in these remarks, that deserves the atte till* tion of all professing ...
John Angell James, 1829
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Basque-English, English-Basque Dictionary
ill-bred adj. gizabidegabe. illegal adj. legekontrako. legeaurkako, bidegabeko. illegality n bidegabetasun deslegetasun illegally adv legezkanpo, legezkontra. illegible adj. irakurgaitz, zirriborrotsu, irakurtezin illegibly adv irakurtezinez.
Gorka Aulestia, 1992
9
Untitled
tId/ /-"sO;.r.8Id/ adjective mainly uk looking strange together and not seeming to be a good match: ill-assorted furniture * an ill-assorted couple ill-bred /%Il"bred/ adjective old-fashioned rude and behaving badly: an ill-bred young man ...
‎
10
Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth
The words, " You are ill-bred, sir," — (un mal e'leve', monsieur) — as they rang in my ears, troubled me more and more. My intoxication had completely passed away. When I reflected on my behavior in the matter, the strange thought all at ...
Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ILL-BRED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ill-bred is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Exchange of sharp words between MHP, CHP morphs into battle
He called on parties to discuss problems they have between each other on their own, without pulling the AK party into such "ill-bred arguments" ... «Daily Sabah, Jul 15»
2
Before It's Banned, Check Out What GONE WITH THE WIND Said …
... and they evidenced what Scarlett felt was a very nasty and ill-bred interest in slave concubinage. Especially did she resent this in view of the ... «VDARE.com, Jul 15»
3
It's All Good
Here's an old Yankee >> telling lies to his grandson: “They was a rough, ill-bred lot, for the most pot, them glorious foundling fathers . . . --'filthy ... «Ukiah Daily Journal, Jul 15»
4
Lavinia Warren: Half of the 19th Century's Tiniest, Richest Power …
... "the absurd reports concerning his jealousy and all that are grounded upon an exceedingly ill-bred habit of jesting at the expense of others, ... «Atlas Obscura, Jun 15»
5
Blatant disrespect for local culture
... locals with their disrespectful behaviour but also soil the image of their own country by projecting their kind as ill-bred and culturally shallow. «The Borneo Post, Jun 15»
6
The Spectator at war: Russian resolve
But if they do not worry, why should we do so ? There is something ungentlemanly and ill-bred in offering condolences with streaming eyes and ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jun 15»
7
Kick in the teeth
I realised that we collectively become answerable for the ill-bred professionals who undermine the already declining image of the medical ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Jun 15»
8
Nazri is right, Umno is king
Now learn some manners and behave yourself, you ill-bred yob. You have been most disrespectful to the crown prince. You ought to crawl on ... «Malaysiakini, Jun 15»
9
Erdoğan breaks silence after almost 4 days, calls for immediate …
... also slammed his Western critics, particularly the Western media, defining the statements against him as “ugly, aggressive and ill-bred.”. «Today's Zaman, Jun 15»
10
Saul Bellows Centenary Prompts the Question: Can He Make It With …
... the life of a Jewish nobody from the Midwest—much like the ill-bred but intelligent and moral Huck—is emblematic of the entire vast country. «Daily Beast, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Ill-Bred [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/ill-bred>. Oct 2026 ».
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