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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

rude in manner or behavior, showing bad/poor upbringing;

e.g. His ill-bred remark offended many people and made him seem ignorant.

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Caddish

Coarse

Common

Commoner

Crass

Crude

Discourteous

Gross

Ill-mannered

Illiberal

Impertinent

Impolite

Inconsiderate

Ineloquent

Insensible

Lippy

Low

Lowbrow

Mannered

Polyester

Raffish

Rough

Rough-hewn

Roughneck

Rude

Rugged

Tasteless

Thoughtless

Unamenable

Uncalled-for

Uncivil

Uncooperative

Uncouth

Uncultivated

Uncultured

Undisciplined

Ungenteel

Ungracious

Unhandsome

Unhelpful

Unkind

Unmannered

Unmannerly

Unpolished

Unrefined

Unscholarly

Vulgar

Wrongheaded

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Opposite Words

Acceptable

Accomplished

Affable

Amenable

Appropriate

Aristocratic

Attentive

Becoming

Biddable

Ceremonious

Chivalrous

Civil

Civilized

Comme il faut

Compliant

Conformable

Considerate

Cordial

Courteous

Courtly

Couth

Cultivated

Cultured

Declamatory

Deferential

Diplomatic

Docile

Dutiful

Elegant

Elevated

Eloquent

Felicitous

Fit

Fitting

Friendly

Gallant

Good

Graceful

Gracious

Grammatical

High-flown

High-toned

Hospitable

Humble

Hypercivilized

Kind

Ladylike

Law-abiding

Lofty

Majestic

Meek

Meet

Modest

Obedient

Obsequious

Overcivilized

Oversophisticated

Patrician

Placable

Polished

Politic

Refined

Respectful

Restrained

Right

Scholarly

Sensitive

Sociable

Solicitous

Sophisticated

Stately

Submissive

Subservient

Suitable

Tactful

Thoughtful

Towering

Tractable

Ultrarefined

Unassertive

Urbane

Well-read

Yielding

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Related Words

Abrupt

Adversarial

Adversary

Antagonistic

Antipathetic

Antisocial

Arch

Arrogant

Audacious

Balky

Barbaric

Barbarous

Beastly

Bestial

Blunt

Bold

Bold-faced

Boorish

Brash

Brassy

Brazen

Brusque

Brutal

Brutish

Bumptious

Caddish

Cheeky

Churlish

Classless

Clownish

Clumsy

Conceited

Contrary

Contumacious

Countrified

Crabbed

Cross

Crusty

Curt

Defiant

Disagreeable

Disobedient

Feral

Fresh

Froward

Graceless

Gruff

Grumpy

Haughty

High-handed

Hostile

Imperious

Improper

Impudent

Incompliant

Inconsiderate

Incorrect

Inelegant

Inhospitable

Inimical

Insensitive

Insolent

Insubordinate

Intractable

Jaundiced

Lippy

Loutish

Lumpish

Mortal

Negative

Obstreperous

Peremptory

Pompous

Presumptuous

Pretentious

Provincial

Rebel

Rebellious

Recalcitrant

Recusant

Refractory

Restive

Rustic

Sassy

Saucy

Shameless

Sharp

Snippety

Snippy

Subhuman

Sullen

Supercilious

Superior

Surly

Swinish

Thoughtless

Uncivilized

Uncouth

Unfriendly

Ungentlemanly

Ungovernable

Unmannered

Unmannerly

Unruly

Unseemly

Unsophisticated

Unsympathetic

Untoward

Wayward

Willful

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