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  • adjective dated ill-mannered and vulgar; impolite.

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Examples

  • I refuse to acknowledge a low-bred stray as the Grand Dame of my people.

    Dark Warrior Untamed Alexis Morgan 2010

  • I refuse to acknowledge a low-bred stray as the Grand Dame of my people.

    Dark Warrior Untamed Alexis Morgan 2010

  • Think first of an ordinary common cur — I mean one of the horrible, coarse-haired, low-bred curs that do nothing but run about the streets and befoul the walls of the houses.

    An Enemy of the People 2008

  • Smyth describes him in 1823 as a grumpy old man, but not without his distractions: Though his manners and language are those of a vulgar, low-bred fellow, he is cleanly in his person and regular in his habits and ingenious in his amusements.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Smyth describes him in 1823 as a grumpy old man, but not without his distractions: Though his manners and language are those of a vulgar, low-bred fellow, he is cleanly in his person and regular in his habits and ingenious in his amusements.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Think first of an ordinary common cur — I mean one of the horrible, coarse-haired, low-bred curs that do nothing but run about the streets and befoul the walls of the houses.

    An Enemy of the People 2008

  • Smyth describes him in 1823 as a grumpy old man, but not without his distractions: Though his manners and language are those of a vulgar, low-bred fellow, he is cleanly in his person and regular in his habits and ingenious in his amusements.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Now Don Guzman, however much he might be puzzled at first at our strange English ways of asking burghers and such low-bred folk to eat and drink above the salt, in the company of noble persons, was quite gentleman enough to know that Richard Grenville was gentleman enough to do only what was correct, and according to the customs and proprieties.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • He sent to Plinius Rufus at once, demanding that the surrender be to him, not to Agrippa the low-bred nobody.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • I beat Sextus Pompeius, not you or your low-bred minions.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

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