bred-in-the-bone
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "They had the kind of bred-in-the-bone manners that were unobtrusively the same for one and all."
- "But few could match the bred-in-the-bone exceptionalism rooted deep in America's self-image."
- "Her navy had barely broken off its pursuit of the fleeing Spaniards, in fact, when Elizabeth exposed her bred-in-the-bone selfishness, her cold indifference to the well-being of the subjects whose supposed love for her she and the royal propagandists endlessly celebrated as one of the wonders of the age."
- "Antrim, bred-in-the-bone Republican conservative, has a proud patriotic tradition."
- "Critics see an unreasonable craving for authority in Newman's anti-liberalism. He was also a bred-in-the-bone Tory, and as the youthful leader of the Oxford Movement that sought a bulwark against Parliamentary manipulation of Anglicanism in its ancient Catholic roots, he could be savagely polemical."
- "The point of this political genealogy is not only that Lawrence Cannon was a bred-in-the-bone Liberal, […]"
Etymology
From the past participle of breed in the bone.
Inflected Forms
more bred-in-the-bone (comparative)
most bred-in-the-bone (superlative)