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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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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.
I prefer both sire and dam to be well-bred, but a well-bred mare and an underbred horse will produce a faster animal than a thoroughbred horse and an underbred mare.
It was, somehow, so underbred to owe money to all sorts of people.
They plainly did not know how to treat me, but behaved like persons who are underbred.
It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense.
Both disliked Home very much, and thought him an underbred Yankee quack and charlatan.

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