Things made by mankind under modern conditions are ugly, primarily because our social organisation is ugly, because we live in an atmosphere of snatch and uncertainty, and do everything in an underbred strenuous manner.
Science stands, a too competent servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use.
Every woman who could command money used it, we found, to make underbred aggressions on other women.
I am addressed by an underbred street-urchin as a 'Blooming Blacky!
Two reasons accounted for this: Hester's openly avowed and persistent dislike to Annie, and Miss Russell's declared conviction that she was underbred and not a lady.
I wonder what there is about that Mr Thurston that always makes me behave in his presence like an underbred schoolgirl?
Alexander's feelings for Napoleon had always been of a very mixed sort; he envied Napoleon as a rival, and despised him as an underbred upstart.
We perhaps give them more than their share to spend, and more of luxury than is good for them; and all too many of the underbred among them paint and bejewel and begown themselves to imitate the lecherous barbarism of the too free.
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.
How prone to call the unblushing effrontery of every underbred man impudence!
The shifting of control out of the hands of the gentleman into those of the underbred common man, 251.
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.
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.
This it was which I could not bear, and my amore propre recoiled from the thought of being a laughing-stock to the underbred and ill-born horde that would assemble to witness me.
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.
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.
Vulgarity alone was criminal; and the sins of the underbredadmitted of no palliation.
I was being shown round a remount depot where the horses were picketed out with a hind leg tethered to a peg, when a sour-looking, underbred artillery horse, began kicking at his neighbour.
The present may be well enough; though I should think existence with that low, underbred family here, would be a"?
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.
I need scarcely say that he met the dignified rebuke such underbred observations merited.
You can always tell underbred people by the presents they give.
I wonder you stood her so long, and what Martin was thinking of to be blinded by a superficial, shallow, underbred creature like that is beyond me.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underbred" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
