ill-bred

  • 21ill-bred — adjective (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace • Syn: ↑bounderish, ↑lowbred, ↑rude, ↑underbred, ↑yokelish • Similar to: ↑unrefined …

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  • 22Ill — Ill, adv. In a ill manner; badly; weakly. [1913 Webster] How ill this taper burns! Shak. [1913 Webster] Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] Note: Ill, like above, well,… …

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  • 23Ill-nurtured — Ill nur tured, a. Ill bred. Shak. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 24ill-mannered — [adj] badly behaved bad mannered, boorish, cheap, churlish, coarse, discourteous, disrespectful, ill behaved, ill bred, impertinent, impolite, insolent, loud, loudmouthed, loutish, raunchy*, raw, rough, roughneck*, rude, tacky*, uncivil, uncouth …

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  • 25ill-mannered — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. ill bred, rude, coarse, boorish. See discourtesy. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. impolite, discourteous, ill bred, uncouth; see rude 1 , 2 . See Synonym Study at rude . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a …

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  • 26ill — adj., adv., & n. adj. 1 (usu. predic.; often foll. by with) out of health; sick (is ill; was taken ill with pneumonia; mentally ill people). 2 (of health) unsound, disordered. 3 wretched, unfavourable (ill fortune; ill luck). 4 harmful (ill… …

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  • 27ill-mannered — adj ill bred, bad mannered, unmannerly, rude, impolite, uncivil. See ill bred …

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  • 28ill — Synonyms and related words: abomination, affection, ailing, ailment, amiss, apocalyptic, atrocity, bad, badly, baleful, bane, baneful, befoulment, below par, black, blight, bodeful, boding, complaint, condition, corruption, criminal, critically… …

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  • 29ill-mannered — adjective we never encountered the ill mannered locals you had warned us about Syn: bad mannered, discourteous, rude, impolite, uncivil, abusive, disagreeable; insolent, impertinent, impudent, cheeky, presumptuous, audacious, disrespectful; badly …

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  • 30ill-mannered — a. Impolite, uncivil, uncourteous, discourteous, uncourtly, unpolished, uncouth, rude, ill behaved, ill bred …

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