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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ill-bred
Adjective
  • The book is filled with vulgar pictures, with many faces blacked out, and messages both handwritten and typed from well-wishers for Epstein’s 50th birthday.
    Joey Garrison, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The biopic is the vulgar but necessary tribute inherently populist cinema pays to more traditional, higher-brow art.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • These particular coffee-shop customers picked the wrong day to be rude, though.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the Lions give a rude welcome back to Ben Johnson, while the 49ers run over the Saints.
    Vic Tafur, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Edwards, along with protesting comrade Tom Hopper (Raife Hastings) and crass CIA contractor Jules Landry (Luke Hemsworth) join a secret CIA unit fighting terrorism in Europe.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Liverpool fans know how hurtful crass chants can be.
    Simon Hughes, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Boiled down to a thoughtless pervert by the public, Six became one.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025
  • In the days depicted in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, thoughtless incarceration of the mentally ill was too common.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • Democrats have responded by condemning Kirk's assassination and all political violence, which has become increasingly common against members of both parties and individuals of all stripes.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Selling general partnership stakes to firms like Blue Owl or Petershill Partners has become common for elite private equity firms over the past decade, and several private equity giants are also publicly traded.
    Hank Tucker, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Adam22, however, posted a satirical take on the challenge that many found disrespectful.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Not a single disrespectful word passed between us.
    Ron Mix, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Terms of service change often, logging is limited and controls can be coarse and generalized.
    Mark Doble, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Leave the texture of the graham crackers at a coarse crush.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The two firms are also considering building an oil pipeline and storage facility in Oman to help boost Iraq’s crude exports.
    Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • That prompted a frustrated Webex engineer, Eric Yuan, to quit and start Zoom, which is why WebEx looks like a crude prototype of what Zoom became.
    Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Ill-bred.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ill-bred. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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