underbreeding

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

underbreeding

  1. present participle and gerund of underbreed

Noun[edit]

underbreeding (uncountable)

  1. A lack of manners or sophistication.
    • 1916, Princess Eleanor Hulda Calhoun Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich, Pleasures and Palaces:
      It was considered the acme of underbreeding to manifest any sense whatever of patronage in such deeds.