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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
well-bred
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And how could he disguise his well-bred manners and speech?
▪ His attitude was that of a well-bred man reluctant to discuss some family difference with a prying outsider.
▪ However, the reckless, well-bred show of bravado did not exactly endear the utterer to two other boys of like age.
▪ I mean, I am a well-bred woman.
▪ Sometimes the health problem can be very serious: Winsome was a well-bred Thoroughbred brood mare.
▪ Such a nice, polite, well-bred young woman.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Well-bred

Well-bred \Well"-bred`\, a. Having good breeding; refined in manners; polite; cultivated.

I am as well-bred as the earl's granddaughter.
--Thackera?.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
well-bred

1590s, from well (adv.) + bred.

Wiktionary
well-bred

a. 1 well-mannered and refined because of a good upbringing and education 2 (context of animals English) of good breed

WordNet
well-bred

adj. of good upbringing [syn: well-mannered]

Usage examples of "well-bred".

Besides, she was not a well-bred young lady, she was a love-child, which was a much pleas anter term than bastard.

She showed neither fright nor anger, and Malemute Kid chuckled at her well-bred equanimity.

The eyes were hard, black, rather coldly sullen, in spite of the fact that Donald Perdy was putting on a beautiful, well-bred act for the benefit of his wealthy visitor.

He had been polite but not presumptuous, seeming no sorcerer at all but only the well-bred lord of a rather unconventional manor house.

As Jones, therefore, might very justly be called a well-bred man, he had stifled all that curiosity which the extraordinary manner in which he had found Mrs.

They are both agreeable, well-bred girls, but Charis is a lovely ninnyhammer, while Frederica, in my judgment, is a woman of superior sense.

At my insistence she had attired herself in a proper frock and flower-trimmed hat, and she looked like what she was notan innocent, well-bred young English lady.

Von Pilsen and his friends could scarcely keep down their laughter to a well-bred key, when Mr.

I had 60 well-bred sows, young and old, and I could count on them to farrow at least three times in two years.

Because they were Highlanders who kept much to themselves, because of the centuries of rumors, because of the string of broken betrothals, fathers of well-bred young ladies were loath to pledge their daughters to him.

Trailed by his bugler, the squadron colors and a couple of supernumerary junior noncoms, Gaib was leading his charger, which appeared on the verge of throwing a shoe, toward a still-unpacked traveling forge, his lips moving in curses at well-bred bumpkins who carried their feelings ill balanced on their armguards and gave not one damn for his military rank, rendering him what little deference they did only because he was heir to a Kindred vahrohnos.

The actual transfer to the stage of the drawing-room and its occupants, with the behavior common in well-bred society, would no doubt fail of the intended dramatic effect, and the spectators would declare the representation unnatural.

The Dales may have been well-bred and lived in a large house, but they also had a stubborn gene which cropped up from time to time, a restless, inventive, unconstrained gene as capable of causing great mischief as of creating great beauty.

These sudden and strong alternations of feeling and action on your part puzzle and disquiet me, and I cannot see why one brought up as you have been should not maintain a quiet, well-bred deportment, and do right as a matter of course, as your sisters do.

Chewing her wedding cake Babygirl is disconcerted to discover something tough, sinewy, bristly in it, like gristle, or fragments of bone, or tiny bits of wire, but she is too well-bred and embarrassed to spit the foreign substance, if it is a foreign substance, out: discreetly pushes it with her tongue to the side of her mouth, behind her molars, for safe-keeping.