ill breeding, ˈill-ˈbreeding
[ill a. + breeding vbl. n.]
Bad or inferior breeding or bringing up; hence, Bad manners, rudeness.
| 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. II. 136 Declamations against the ill-breeding of modern young men. 1819 Byron Juan i. clxxiv, To say the best, it was extreme ill-breeding. |