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What (who) is ill-bred - definition
BRITISK TELEVISION SERIES
Born & Bred; Born and bred
ill-bred
a.
Impolite, uncivil, uncourteous, discourteous, uncourtly, unpolished, uncouth, rude, ill-behaved, ill-mannered.
Ill-bred
·adj Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. ·see Note under Ill, ·adv
ill-bred
If you say that someone is ill-bred, you mean that they have bad manners.
= uncouth
ADJ [disapproval]
Wikipedia
Born and Bred
Born and Bred was a British light-hearted 1950s-set medical drama series aired on BBC One which ran from 21 April 2002 to 3 August 2005. It was created by Chris Chibnall and Nigel McCrery. Initially the cast was led by James Bolam and Michael French as a father and son who run a cottage hospital in Ormston, a fictitious village in Lancashire, in the 1950s. Bolam's and French's characters were later replaced by characters played by Richard Wilson and Oliver Milburn.
Examples of use of ill-bred
1. To say that this is ‘nakakakunsumi’ (irritating) is an understatement of the highest degree.» Florencio Laron wrote from Saudi Arabia and said, «All I have to say is that may–breeding siya — masama nga lang — (she is ill–bred) and she doesn’t deserve to be a Filipino.» «This is bigotry at its purest.
2. John Shand Saturday July 1', 1'52 The Guardian Jane, not with ill–bred brevity, not with casual modern familiarity, but simply because the wheels of the train carrying one into Hampshire rhythmically brought to memory the poem Kipling wrote for his tale about the Janeites: "Jane went to Paradise:/ That was only fair./ Good Sir Walter met her first,/ And led her up the stair./ Henry and Tobias,/ And Miguel of Spain,/ Stood with Shakespeare at the top/ To welcome Jane." Article continues But the Janeites are no longer a small secret society, as pictured in Kipling‘s tribute to her.