| 单词 | underbred |
| 例句 | “An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking & ultimately nauseating.” Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z I remarked upon how underbred, illiterate, insistent, raw & ultimately nauseating she was before retiring from the room to my bed, therewith to restore myself with a little George Eliot. Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z “Genius it has I think; but of the inferior water… . It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense.” The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Or ‘Now I’d better darn my brown stockings,’ ” and it is characteristic that the word she should find to express her critical reservations about “Ulysses” is “underbred.” Virginia Woolf’s Consciousness of Reality 1954-02-27T05:00:00Z Virginia Woolf called it an “illiterate, underbred” book. Your Tuesday Briefing 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z He had looked to find her one of two things; either flashy and underbred, with every fault an Englishman might consider French, or a nice mixture of craft and servility. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z "Is he a small, foppish man, full of monstrous airs and graces, and--and rather underbred?" Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z He had to turn away that the coarse-grained, underbred man beside him might not see too much. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z For if one gets a really good fencer and galloper this size, he is far better than a big underbred horse that tires one out immediately. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z Nothing is more underbred than the habit of taking offense, or fancying one's self slighted, on all occasions. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z The poor fellow was ignorant and underbred; fortitude was hardly to be expected from such as he. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z But none of these talents overcame the sad fact that Wolf was not a show dog and that he looked positively underbred and shabby alongside of his sire or of Bruce. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z She ordered me about in public, and I loved her so much that I obeyed her, and did not regard her behaviour as the least underbred or vulgar. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Why, on top of her experience of bearleading a brace of utterly uninteresting and unengaging children—and being at the beck and call of their detestable underbred mother, this was ideal. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Mrs. Smythe’s abrupt remark jarred upon them, and simultaneously it occurred to them that she was distinctly underbred. The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies 2011-11-26T03:00:16.047Z As a rule the Arab is rather light of bone, but his bone is twice as strong as that of an underbred horse. Small Horses in Warfare 2011-10-26T02:00:30.897Z For the others he had expected to find very second-rate types, possibly overdressed, certainly underbred; forward and gushing or awkwardly shy. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z Nor are the gibes themselves quite unjustified so far as they touch merely the underbred insipidities of Leigh Hunt’s tea-party manner in Rimini. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z "Yes," said Mrs. Blanchard; "I'm very fond of Caroline, but I'm afraid I could never get Bertie up to the point of intimacy with Malcolm Johnson; he thinks him underbred—says his hats show it." Boston Neighbours In Town and Out 2011-05-24T02:00:13.567Z Mother thought she was very loud and underbred. Hope Benham A Story for Girls 2011-05-16T02:00:18.193Z It was, no doubt, a sacrifice for a well-born woman to become the wife of an underbred man, however wealthy. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z It is a ruthlessly candid study of Irish provincial and suburban life; of the squalors of middle-class households; of garrison hacks and “underbred, finespoken,” florid squireens. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z In this diplomacy he met with little assistance from Lady Eleanor and his daughter; the former, from a natural coldness of manner and an instinctive horror of everything low and underbred. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z She knew quite well that Mrs. Desmond disliked the word mamma, considering it underbred; but the girl had told herself that she would call no stranger mother, and she kept her word. Unlucky A Fragment of a Girl's Life 2011-03-24T02:00:14.360Z It is the tone of the average adult whenever he enters into conversation with any acquaintance under twelve—an underbred or quite uncalled-for tone of badinage, of quizzing, of insincerity. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z There was a cordial, hearty tone about the hostesses which was decidedly pleasant, although he was aware that Pauline would pronounce it sadly underbred. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z I like most people, but she was underbred—at One Hundredth Street? A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z The most insufferable assumption of superiority is never half so chilling in its effect upon underbred people as the calm quietude of good manners. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z She is forward, affected, and underbred; and her character is somewhat—never mind what. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z The streets were so full of plump, self-satisfied blonde women, overdressed and underbred. The Preliminaries And Other Stories How could she find time to think of any one so plebeian as the underbred rich man she had married, by his entrancing side? Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir To show fear is a privilege of the underbred. A Man in the Open Socially I know nothing so bad: the liberty is license, and the license is an intolerable freedom, where only the underbred are at ease. Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) I repeat my hope that the friends and acquaintances with whom I live are not the underbred and ill-mannered class you think them; beyond that I have nothing to say. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience The man might be rude and underbred; he was rude and underbred! and was that any justification for my conduct towards him? A Day's Ride A Life's Romance How underbred your brother will persist in being, my love," said she, calmly; "that vile trick of slamming a door, they learn, I 'm told, in the Guards' Club. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Like an underbred acquaintance, they will not be denied; they are always "going your way;" and in their cruel civility they insist on bearing you company. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas She caught him by the collar, looking straight at the exceptionally handsome man with the underbred blaze of yellow on his shirt-front: "Down! down, sir!—You had better go back," to Mr. Van Ness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. I had been the subject of a rudeness to-day, at the table-d'h�te, which, in my little knowledge of the world, I attributed to the underbred habits of a coarse school of manners. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience You were fortunate, madam," said I, "in the indisposition that confined you to your room, and which rescued you from the underbred presumption of this man's manners. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance Vulgarity alone was criminal; and the sins of the underbred admitted of no palliation. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life How prone to call the unblushing effrontery of every underbred man impudence! Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas But these reformers are apt to be underbred, irritable, with nasty peculiarities of habits and manner which they never have thought it worth while to cure. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. I need scarcely say that he met the dignified rebuke such underbred observations merited. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience She was simply a pretty, underbred little governess. The Return of the Prodigal "A farmer's niece—an underbred, forward, designing, vulgar country girl—to be Countess of Lanswell," cried my lady, in horror. A Mad Love When I asked to see the manager of the affair, you know, the Skipper, they showed me an underbred brass-bound official called a Purser, who said he'd put me in irons if I wasn't civil. Aliens Girls of that sort always seem so much more underbred when they are trying to be superior than when they are not; they get so stiff and—exasperating. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman American girls seemed to her all "queer," and, though she did not say so, rather vulgar and underbred. Clark's Field The clever way in which little horses of all sorts and kinds, well bred and underbred, with all sorts of weights on their backs, jumped high timber fences without touching them, was wonderful to behold. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' M. Marrast, though a disagreeable, self-sufficient, and underbred person, was unquestionably a writer of point, brilliancy, and vigor. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 She is not the kind of person; she is underbred, uneducated. Phoebe, Junior It was, of course, only a bad, underbred habit that showed bad education and a false idea of good manners. The Brothers Karamazov The speaker was a powerfully built man of thirty-five years of age; he was broad rather than tall, underbred, coarse in complexion, and his jaw, well developed, seemed to indicate will power. Border Ghost Stories Although she did not show it, she must have thought him a bumpkin, an oaf, an underbred cur. 'Me--Smith' And when Mrs. Wallace, against his will, forced herself upon his imagination, he tried to remember her vulgarity, her underbred manners, her excessive use of scent. The Hero There is something stupid and underbred at times in the attitude of saints and stoics—at least in their books. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life This was what came of allowing oneself to become familiar with an underbred stranger! Studies in love and in terror But his manners—I never saw anything so underbred. Vixen, Volume I. As a class she found them overdressed and underbred. Little Lost Sister But I warn you, no skylarking with underbred people or I shall take you straight home.” Dorothy's Travels But he understood well the barbarous power which some underbred, well-trained barrister would have of asking him questions which it would be so very disagreeable for him to answer! Ralph the Heir He was an underbred maverick, with sharp eyes of watery blue, a thin mustache, large teeth, and no chin worth noticing. The Job An American Novel If the girl had been awkward or underbred, she could have taken her in hand with a good grace. The Girls at Mount Morris The qualities which made her so different from his timid, underbred, melancholy mother, or his coarse and self-indulgent wife, were those in which Margaret showed peculiar excellence. A True Friend A Novel The "quality" used visiting-cards; but it would have been considered underbred and pretentious to sow them around in the modern manner. A Little Girl of Long Ago His music always seems to me to be so provincial and gentlemanly and underbred as to remind one of a county ball. Nights in London Our reporters demand of the foreigner, barely he has stepped ashore, what he thinks of the United States; and then nearly every one he meets helps to form the opinion that we are insufferably underbred. The Lure of the Mask The second is also a large, square-headed dog, but shaggy, more like a great underbred spaniel than anything else. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II The candid graciousness that marks the act is in happy contrast to the self-conscious agitation of the underbred and the torpid panic of their stifled bow. St. Cuthbert's He had never had a care in his life beyond his health, and quarrels of every sort he left to underbred people with evil tempers. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! Such a set of 'gigs,' my dear, I never saw in my life; large underbred horses, and not a good-looking man amongst them. Kate Coventry An Autobiography He tells us that, for a long while at least, he had been unacquainted with the kind of society, the idle, useless underbred society, of watering-places. St. Ronan's Well Increasingly underbred, and thereby insensibly approaching the character of this war situation, but accepted with visible reluctance and apprehension both by the ruling class and by the underlying population. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation "Did you not on going down find a party in your kitchen?" asked an underbred barrister of a witness. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings Kirtley learned gradually, through his dealings with tradesmen and in hearing business men talk in the cafés, that this underbred attitude extended into the German secular world. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life He never caught the Paris fever as Hume did, and Sterne, or even as Walpole did, for all the hard things he says of the underbred and overbearing manners of the philosophers. Gibbon But the only actual witness to the fact, Mrs. Lyon herself, was the reverse of a trustworthy witness, being a foolish capricious underbred woman. Historical Mysteries —The shifting of control out of the hands of the gentleman into those of the underbred common man, 251. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation Macklin one night sitting at the back of the front boxes, with a gentleman of his acquaintance, an underbred lounger stood up immediately before him, and covered the sight of the stage entirely from him. The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings All the same, it is in very bad taste and excessively underbred of her. Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance "There's something so underbred about crankiness; and the Harwich family have always been essentially aristocrats." Bella Donna A Novel To the unrefined or underbred, the visiting card is but a trifling and insignificant bit of paper; but to the cultured disciple of social law, it conveys a subtle and unmistakable intelligence. Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society The order of gentlemanly parleying and brokery has, therefore, with many apprehensions of calamity, been reluctantly and tardily giving ground before something that is of a visibly underbred order. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation He is really an underbred person," she explained, "and he hasn't the sharpness to know that is the reason Walderhurst detests him. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" Thousands of youths who a few months ago were slouching, narrow-chested, feeble specimens of underbred humanity, have now-expanded into well set up, hardened men. The Discipline of War Nine Addresses on the Lessons of the War in Connection with Lent That is what is wrong with the British Empire," he jeered; "there are too many of these underbred aristocrats, all pedigree and no brains, like the long-nosed collies. The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder The coarse readiness to accept publicity which distinguishes the underbred woman, whether in England or America, the desire to show off a foreign emancipation from what appear ridiculous French rules, were not in her. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. But the most austere courtesy and the most authentically dispassionate division of benefits will not meet the underbred exigencies of a war conducted on the mechanistic lines of the modern state of the industrial arts. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation "Catherine, how often, how very often have I told you that expressions of rapture such as you have just given way to are underbred." The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town He confronted a lean, narrow-chested young man, black-suited, pale of face, with watery eyes, straw-coloured eyelashes and an underbred smile that twitched between timidity and assurance. Lady Good-for-Nothing Yet nothing can be conceived less Arab like than your stolid but practical Dutchman and the underbred screw he rides. With Rimington A cold repulsive manner, such as is commonly assumed by persons in high life, is sometimes a necessary shield against the pushing familiarity of underbred persons. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 They torment the poor horses and dogs dreadfully; and if the said horses were not the very quietest, meekest, most underbred and depressed animals in the world, we should certainly hear of more accidents. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Only a very underbred, thick-skinned person would attempt it. Etiquette In travelling by rail, when sitting near some rather underbred party of youths and damsels, I have commonly noticed that the girls were the noisiest. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays Both disliked Home very much, and thought him an underbred Yankee quack and charlatan. Cock Lane and Common-Sense No timidity or prudery or underbred doubts about this thorough creature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 It was such bad ton, it was so unlike him, it was so underbred, for a person of his position immediately to bow before the new idol of the hour, and a Tory girl too! Venetia No one is more intolerable than an underbred civilian. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes "I think it very possible," drawled the Countess, looking at him, nevertheless, with a certain contempt for what she privately considered his priggish, underbred cant. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage "Well, he seems to be a shy little man, gauche, and--and--underbred, even for his late position." The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction So naturally Socialism, that disease of the underbred, had taken hold of the less careful of the Potter young. Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Machine-made goods of daily use are often admired and preferred precisely on account of their excessive perfection by the vulgar and the underbred who have not given due thought to the punctilios of elegant consumption. Theory of the Leisure Class She wondered how young wives habitually dealt with this problem, when they happened to marry husbands so negligent, not to say underbred, as to cause them the awkwardness and the shame. The Price She Paid Valentin made a bow which must have seemed to Mademoiselle Noemie quite in harmony with the impressiveness of his title, but the graceful brevity of her own response made no concession to underbred surprise. The American 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. Emma The men appeared to her all coarse, the women all pert, everybody underbred; and she gave as little contentment as she received from introductions either to old or new acquaintance. Mansfield Park What right has that little underbred girl to bring an illegitimate life into the world? Star-Dust If he had been an altogether commonplace man—pompous, underbred, ridiculous in any way—the situation would have been a shade less tragic. The Golden Calf She is rather underbred—or 'modern,' I suppose I should call it, and she's more or less in a state of ferment; but I dare say she will come out all right in the end. Under the Skylights But in her own circumstances she did unconsciously a great deal more,—and she disliked to fill her mind with money matters, considering it vulgar and underbred to dwell long on them. Together Some ladies complain that it gives a number of vulgar, underbred men the opportunity of introducing themselves to the notice and company of their daughters. Life in the Clearings versus the Bush They seem to me to be underbred, of a different sort. The Great God Success He had imagined her a flashy damsel, underbred, with a vulgar style of beauty, a superficial cleverness, and all those baser arts by which the needy sometimes ingratiate themselves into the favour of the rich. The Golden Calf He was a pretentious, underbred, half-educated man, fluent with all the commonplaces of middle-class ambition, which are humorously called democratic opinions, but at heart a sycophant of the aristocracy. Endymion She pronounced the quiet little painter a pert, little, obtrusive, underbred creature. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family I., he says, 'Josephine was delighted with the disposition of her goodman,' a word used only by underbred people. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Every woman who could command money used it, we found, to make underbred aggressions on other women. A Modern Utopia "The present may be well enough; though I should think existence with that low, underbred family here, would be a"? Five Little Peppers Midway You have only learned external facts about the Jocelyns, and out of your prejudices have created a family of underbred people that does not exist. Without a Home But a few spoke loudly and volubly, and were regarded by the rest, who envied them, as underbred. The Old Wives' Tale "Because that wretched Polly has been invited also; and she is quite mean enough and underbred enough to walk up to me before every one and ask me to give her back her property." A Sweet Girl Graduate Science stands, a too competent servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. A Modern Utopia It is the most underbred swine I ever saw; but I did not know it was so ravenous. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 The actors were not so much vulgar as underbred; their ambitions and tastes were often deplorable. The Upton Letters There was a man who thought himself too good for his business, and in reality was nothing but an underbred, impertinent creature. Will Warburton None of the fuss and adulation to which she was grown accustomed; no underbred compliments; no ambiguous glances from men. The Whirlpool I can talk to one of my father's labourers with pleasure, while with a man like that underbred fop I am all over thorns and nettles. Wives and Daughters This man—a most well-meaning, good-hearted, useful little underbred person, typical of so large a class in the Colonial Church—was Deb's pet aversion, and did not know it. Sisters The wood thrush has none of theses underbred traits. Wake-Robin "He's so cursedly practical, and so proud of it, too," he would often say; "and if you will pardon me, sir—a trifle underbred." The Fortunes of Oliver Horn Lady Honoria, like many another woman of her stamp, was the overbred, or sometimes the underbred, product of a too civilized age and class. Beatrice It was exactly one of the speeches Molly had disliked him for before; and delivered, too, in that kind of underbred manner which showed that it was meant to convey a personal compliment. Wives and Daughters With the embarrassment of an underbred man, Miguel tried to appear unconcerned, but failed dismally. The Story of a Mine Many make a large fortune who remain underbred and pathetically stupid to the last. The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson They are seldom underbred, mind you, they are always overbred, and, strange to say, without the slightest sense of humor, for they are all brought up on serious isms and solemn fads. The Fortunes of Oliver Horn To be without powder, as some underbred people were talking of being now, was in fact to insult the proprieties of life, by being undressed. My Lady Ludlow It was, somehow, so underbred to owe money to all sorts of people. Beyond And there are also many women in the world who, under the clothes, and not unfrequently under the title of a lady, wear the heart of an underbred snob. Diary of a Pilgrimage What he was doing, he told himself, was extremely ungentlemanly, horribly underbred. Crome Yellow Pray excuse me," said Rupert, in a voice which he contrived to make somehow or other at once affable and underbred, "but we thought perhaps that you might do something for the Waifs and Strays. The Club of Queer Trades A trifle underbred, too, or she would not insist so much on her breeding. An Unsocial Socialist This time in particular there was a freckled underbred young man who handed in what was evidently a carefully prepared memorandum upon what he called "my positions." Soul of a Bishop An uneducated, underbred, and underfed propertyless man is a man who has lost the possibility of liberty. The New Machiavelli |
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