well-bred

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well-bred

adjective better-bred · more well-bred · best-bred · most well-bred · wellbred

of animals Of good breed.
of people Well-mannered and refined because of a good upbringing and education (and, originally and literally but usually not in current usage, because well-born in a eugenic sense). Halpin [Frayser]’s death and the post-mortem demoniacalness of the well-bred Southern woman, lops off the grafted branches of the human and cuts it down to that stump of itself which is primordial, persistent, unconscious animalism.

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adj well-mannered and refined

Español	bien nacido

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@misc{well_bred_2026,
  title = {well-bred},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/well-bred},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}