Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Coarse; vulgar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Bred in a low condition of life;rude ;vulgar .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word lowbred.
Examples
-
Then he realized he had been frozen in cat form far too long and was thinking like some stupid lowbred dispatcher of vermin.
First Warning McCaffrey, Anne 2005
-
We put up at the big hotel opposite the railway station, and looked and behaved like a pair of lowbred South
Greenmantle 2005
-
We put up at the big hotel opposite the railway station, and looked and behaved like a pair of lowbred South Africans home for a spree.
Greenmantle John Buchan 1907
-
To Montcalm, who was of noble birth with no shamming, this lowbred pretense and play at courtcraft became a bore; to his staff of officers, a source of continual amusement; but De Lévis presently falls victim to a pair of fine eyes possessed by the wife of another man.
-
A worthless, lowbred scamp is named commissary general.
-
"Winnie, you're positively lowbred to show such curiosity!"
Vicky Van Carolyn Wells 1902
-
Muses instead of Castalian Divinities, would have passed for a lowbred person dropped from some mountain village.
Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions William Dean Howells 1878
-
Bardolph is a bravo, but great humorist; he is a lowbred, drunken swaggerer, wholly without principle, and always poor.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
-
No, no, sir, I don't mention your lowbred, vulgar, sound sleep; but I can't help thinking that a gentle slumber, or half an hour's dozing, if it were only for the novelty of the thing ----
The Duenna Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1783
-
But he hung around with the wrong crowd - lowbred types in high political circles - and look where it has gotten him.
The Daily Reckoning 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.