Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition of being underbred; underbred conduct or utterances.
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Examples
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How would you feel about someone bemoaning the slow death of the human race through underbreeding when actually there are plenty of brown babies being born?
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2010
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While absence of an educated class seems to be damaging to a society, I'm not sure where the evidence of the "smart class underbreeding is a tragedy" comes from.
Archive 2008-04-01 Steven Barnes 2008
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While absence of an educated class seems to be damaging to a society, I'm not sure where the evidence of the "smart class underbreeding is a tragedy" comes from.
Should Smart People Worry? Steven Barnes 2008
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Such conduct represents that nadir of underbreeding and folly.
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Such conduct represents that nadir of underbreeding and folly.
An Autobiography Roosevelt, Theodore 1913
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Such conduct represents that nadir of underbreeding and folly.
Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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That disagreeable quality in the voice which in an American woman is often the most easily perceptible note of underbreeding was not there.
The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869
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You don't mind vulgarity and underbreeding because you are perfectly indifferent to people so long as they don't try to jump the fence about your own little private enclosure. "
The Great God Success David Graham Phillips 1889
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She'd make a sensation in a Fifth Avenue drawing-room if she had the sense to keep her mouth shut, and not show her ignorance and underbreeding. "
Without a Home Edward Payson Roe 1863
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