Underbreed
noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 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?"
Verb
- 1 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From under- + breed.
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