Meaning

To breed insufficiently..

Definitions by Sense

1. To breed insufficiently.
2. (chiefly science fiction) An inferior or subservient breed of people or sentient beings.

Example Sentences

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.

It is just as hopeless to overbreed the under-cultured, as it is to underbreed the cultural.

"Some owners underbreed and lose out on making money," Gurrola said.

Leaf felt degraded by that — hiring on, in effect, as an indentured underbreed — but what choice was there for him?

I had an idea who it was but called the command post and demanded the names of the underbreeds who had last piloted the jet

Hi is thinking about those strange advertisements they read in the tabloid to titillate themselves, and the present in which he exists seems suddenly like some weird science fiction movie of the future in which the world is organized in a strange manner with certain people as an underbreed in which they are manipulated by economics to sell their bodies to others who live in another sphere where the repression of their carnality is required as an imagined requisite for social order.

Word Forms

• underbreeds
• underbreeding
• underbred

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