well-bred

• “On Witte's tongue the phrase "incredibly well-bred man," which he used to describe the youthful Nicholas, became cutting invective.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Statesman For the Czar

• “The well-bred Khawlah has won over a mile and finished third in the Group Three Oh So Sharp Stakes at Newmarket and could throw down a challenge under Frankie Dettori.”

  The Guardian: Bank on improving Mahbooba to lift UAE Oaks at Dubai carnival

• “Klein had 13 horses, three of them well-bred brood mares he bought from local thoroughbred man Curly Taylor.”

  Heroes or Villains?

• “When Petrizzo took the plunge, he acquired well-bred Labs and sought education in animal training and behavior.”

  USA Today: High earners quit rat race to pursue a passion for animals

• ““Spoken like the well-bred gentleman that you are,” Trent remarked.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear

• “Like how sometimes your friend has a new sweater in a particularly awful shade of puce that makes him/her look quite bilious, and when your friend asks, "How do I look in my pleasing new sweater?" you respond, if you are a well-bred person, "What a striking color that is!”

  Archive 2009-08-01

• “I finished my soup and sandwich, turned up the volume on my iPod, then flipped through another book, looking for sites both Patrick and I would enjoy; after all, I was supposed to be introducing him to things that “a well-bred person should know.””

  Simon & Schuster: Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear

• “They were well-bred, well-educated real estate moguls and philanthropists.”

  Simon & Schuster: Larger Than Lyfe

• “She showed neither fright nor anger, and Malemute Kid chuckled at her well-bred equanimity.”

  The Wife of a King

• “He glanced about him at the well-bred, well-dressed men and women, and breathed into his lungs the atmosphere of culture and refinement, and at the same moment the ghost of his early youth, in stiff-rim and square-cut, with swagger and toughness, stalked across the room.”

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