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Lowbred

Bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar; as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark.

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Ill-bred 92% connected

Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See Note under Ill, adv.

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Rude 92% connected

Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.

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Underbred 92% connected

Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow.

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Azoic adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was…

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Boor noun · 78% connection

A rude ill-bred person; one who is clownish in manners.

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Bully noun · 78% connection

A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.

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Cad noun · 78% connection

A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.

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Clodhopper noun · 78% connection

A rude, rustic fellow.

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Clown noun · 78% connection

A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an ill-bred person; a boor.

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Common adjective · 78% connection

being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vu…

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Dowdy superl. · 78% connection

Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking.

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Etiquette noun · 78% connection

The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the propriet…

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Fashion noun · 78% connection

Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.

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Genteel adjective · 78% connection

Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of…

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Gentlewoman noun · 78% connection

A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.

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Goth noun · 78% connection

One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person.

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High-bred adjective · 78% connection

Bred in high life; of pure blood.

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Homozygote noun · 78% connection

(genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic

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Ill-mannered adjective · 78% connection

Impolite; rude.

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Illiberal adjective · 78% connection

Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous.

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Impertinent adjective · 78% connection

Contrary to, or offending against, the rules of propriety or good breeding; guilty of, or prone to, rude, unbecoming, or uncivil words…

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