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Definition of Lowbred
1. Adjective. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace.
Definition of Lowbred
1. a. 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.
Definition of Lowbred
1. Adjective. Bred in a low condition of life; rude; vulgar. ¹
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Definition of Lowbred
1. lowborn [adj] - See also: lowborn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lowbred
Literary usage of Lowbred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1894)
"SIR lowbred O . . N, OR, THE HOTTENTOT KNIGHT. [The above is the title prefixed
to the following verses on a single-page broadside now before me, ..."
2. Sketches from Santalistan by Mathew Andreas Pederson (1913)
"Compared with the tiger, they are lowbred, narrowminded and sneaky animals.
They have made their home in the rocky hills and patches of jungle about us. ..."
3. Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines edited by Enos Bronson (1809)
"... their indefatigable industry, and their unequalled learn-1 ing. These lowborn
and lowbred me- ... In fourteen years these lowborn, lowbred ..."
4. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"A fat-handed, glih-tongued fellow, with a scented cambric handkerchief; one of
your educated lowbred fellows ; a foundling who got his Latin for nothing ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"... published a ballad on ' the zealot of Rochdale,' under the title of ' Sir
lowbred O . . N, or the Hottentot Knight,' retorting a coarse gibe by Owen. ..."
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