underbreed

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underbreed

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From under- + breed.

verb underbreeds · underbreeding · underbred

To breed insufficiently. Whether this political torrent is to be for good or bad for the country at large, whether it is going to breed statesmen or underbreed statesmanship, are points on which a physician need offer no opinion.

noun underbreeds

An inferior or subservient breed of people or sentient beings. Leaf felt degraded by that — hiring on, in effect, as an indentured underbreed — but what choice was there for him?

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@misc{underbreed_2026,
  title = {underbreed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/underbreed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}