ill-born

Well, remember, Vidal comes from a Very Old Family - he wrote a disturbing essay once about Eleanor Roosevelt where he said that her populist ideals were overridden by her patrician upbringing because she would only socialize with people like him, and never with the vulgar, ill-born people she advocated for publicly.

Sex and the single-minded journalists 2008

To be in harmony with your nose, you were a “phenomenal” liar, an ill-bred, ill-born, profligate, partly insane, an evil-tempered monster, a self-righteous person, full of self-approbation — in fact you were the Beast of this pious

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

He had ridiculed the horror felt by his wife at the equally ill-born brothers and sisters in

Ayala's Angel 2004

He had ridiculed the horror felt by his wife at the equally ill-born brothers and sisters in Rome.

Ayala's Angel 1993

Theodore Presser Co. and Universal Edition, 67 pp. Claude Debussy, our century's most original composer, was ill-born, ill-bred, and virtually uneducated save in music.

The Tradition of Sensibility Thomson, Virgil 1965

It is perhaps best to begin with birth: I would therefore warn those who desire to be fathers of notable sons, not to form connections with any kind of women, such as courtesans or mistresses: for those who either on the father or mother's side are ill-born have the disgrace of their origin all their life long irretrievably present with them, and offer a ready handle to abuse and vituperation.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

'Tis certain the next generation of the peerage bids fair to be extreme ill-born, and the result may be surprising.

The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

From king to churl was he a gallant noble; he, a swaggerer, ill-born, a terrorist of mountain passes.

Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham

Nevertheless it certainly will fail there so long as so large a body of the race is undernourished, ill-born, hopelessly submerged -- dragging downward rather than lifting upward.

Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948

They that have been of good families suffer afflictions in consequence of their subjection to persons that are ill-born and the poor are insulted by the rich.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli