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What does underbred mean?

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Adjective
  1. (chiefly horses) of inferior breeding
  2. lacking in manners or finesse
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It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense.
I assumed that it had been developed in the City, where Charlie was picking up the curious nasal drawl of the underbred City man.
It was, somehow, so underbred to owe money to all sorts of people.
A little upstart, vulgar being, with her Mr. E., and her caro sposo, and her resources, and all her airs of pert pretension and underbred finery.
A trifle underbred, too, or she would not insist so much on her breeding.
Both disliked Home very much, and thought him an underbred Yankee quack and charlatan.

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