As a schoolgirl, she was the butt of taunts by ill-bred bullies who railed at her as a ‘retard.’

But she is much mortified by her vulgar grandmother Mme Duval, her ill-bred relatives, and the pursuit of her bold and persistent lover Sir Clement Willoughby.

For they are vacuous, ill-bred fools who know less about video games than they do about recording interesting music.

He makes Eduardo and Hernandez look like the scrappy, ill-bred urchins they are.

He may be right on the issue, but it's so ill-bred for him to bring it up.