Synonyms for bred
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1. List of paraphrases for "bred":

   reared, high

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1. David Hume:

   Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.

2. Bill Hemmer:

   He was speaking for all those people, and he started a hunger drive for them. I mean, that's a pretty good way to start if you ask me, so when you're local, and you're born and bred, yeah, there's an immediate attachment.

3. David Frei:

   She saw a picture of the dog doing exactly what it was bred to do, it was built perfectly, has an active, easy gait, and is elegant in the way that Sir Walter Scott had in mind when Sir Walter Scott called the Deerhound the most perfect creature.

4. Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943):

   Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming and ancestral stream.

5. Tom Blair:

   Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.