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ADJECTIVE
  1. of good upbringing

How To Use well-bred In A Sentence

  • “He is a good deal embarrassed pecuniarily, I should say,” continued the curate, who was rather a good man than a very well-bred one. Uncle Silas
  • Partly this is down to that old bedevilling British thing, class: Mr. Cameron is from very well-bred stock, and so are almost all of his lieutenants. The Election of Gordon W. Bush
  • That is always a good race and this well-bred colt could progress into a top-class performer. The Sun
  • When a certain Mr. Po assisted with military affairs on the northern frontier, he obtained a well-bred horse to give to me.
  • None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
  • Suppose a man of great birth and fortune, who in his youth had been an enthusiastic friend of Lord Byron and a jocund companion of George IV.; who had in him an immense degree of lofty romantic sentiment with an equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism, but who, on account of that admixture, which is so rare, kept The Parisians — Complete
  • Well-bred persons, abhorring the pedantry of the blues, are usually _anti - blues_, or _ultra-antis_. Tales and Novels — Volume 09
  • None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error.
  • There were instances of well-bred middle-class gels entering into marriage with only the haziest idea of how babies were conceived and born.
  • This well-bred colt hasn't been seen this season but his form from last year is very good. The Sun
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