Highbred and Mean

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Highbred adjective - Of high birth, rank, or station.

Usage example: as the highbred descendant of one of the state's oldest families, he bristled at being ordered about by an uncouth upstart

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Mean is an antonym for highbred.

Mean adjective - Belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank.

Usage example: Alexander Hamilton seems to have had feelings of inferiority because of his mean origins

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Highbred is an antonym for mean.

Nearby Words: means, meaning, meanness, meant, meanly

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