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  • adjective obsolete Brought up; educated.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of upbring.

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Examples

  • The bittersweet burden of forgiveness borne by horse & buggy their upbrought intentions manifest, in bereavement quivering but in mercy unshaken–

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  • And just when you thought that Dakota Fanning had been squeezed for all of her melodramatic, retardedly-upbrought, De-Niro-Denzel-Britney-Murphy-Scene-Stealing ways, she pulls another trick out of her Hollywood bag that leaves the country begging for more...

    Archive 2005-09-01 Michelle Collins 2005

  • And just when you thought that Dakota Fanning had been squeezed for all of her melodramatic, retardedly-upbrought, De-Niro-Denzel-Britney-Murphy-Scene-Stealing ways, she pulls another trick out of her Hollywood bag that leaves the country begging for more...

    Earning A Badge In Shit-Eating Grins Michelle Collins 2005

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