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ill humourill luck
ill nature
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ill temper
ill turn
ill will
ill wind
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ill-advised
ill-advisedly
ill-affected
ill-at-ease
ill-being
ill-boding
Ill-breeding
ill-chosen
ill-conceived
Ill-conditioned
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ill-dressed
ill-effects
ill-equipped
ill-famed
ill-fated
Ill-favored
Ill-favoredly
Ill-favoredness
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ILL-BRED, a. Not well bred; unpolite.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
adj
1: (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace [syn: ill- bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish]
Merriam Webster's
adjective Date: 1604 badly brought up or showing bad upbringing; impolite
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Ill-bred Ill"-bred`, a. Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See Note under Ill, adv.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
If you say that someone is ill-bred, you mean that they have bad manners. = uncouth ADJ [disapproval]
Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
a. Impolite, uncivil, uncourteous, discourteous, uncourtly, unpolished, uncouth, rude, ill-behaved, ill-mannered.
Moby Thesaurus
Gothic, Neanderthal, animal, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, boorish, brutal, brutish, caddish, coarse, crude, impolite, inconsiderate, insensitive, loutish, louty, nasty, noncivilized, offensive, outlandish, primitive, rough-and-ready, savage, tactless, troglodytic, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unfeminine, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly, unkempt, unladylike, unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, unsolicitous, untamed, vulgar, wild
