Synonym: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing. Similar words: bring in, ringing, engineering, mudslinging, coming in, changing, belonging, scavenging. Meaning: n. 1. properties acquired during a person's formative years 2. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community.
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31. Upbringing plays an important part in determining a person's character.
32. A knowledge of her upbringing is basic to an understanding of her books.
33. Her upbringing had given her the social skills to cope with such situations.
34. Sam's mother said her son had a good upbringing and schooling.
35. His attitude to sex is coloured by his strict upbringing.
36. After a very proper upbringing he chose to lead the Bohemian life of an artist.
37. All adults take corporate responsibility for the upbringing of the tribe's children.
38. His repression is caused by his stiff-necked, stifled upbringing.
39. Valentin has been discreet about his upbringing.
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40. As an adult, she rejected her Catholic upbringing.
41. I put it down to his upbringing.
42. Their upbringing was pretty straight and traditional, conservative, politically.
43. His Southern Baptist upbringing was still too ingrained.
44. Our grandmother took charge of our religious upbringing.
45. He had a very permissive upbringing.
46. Living in a stately home is an art, acquired by upbringing.
47. Because of my very varied upbringing I have found that I have never been able to analyse the political effects of any discrimination.
48. She didn't like being reminded of her nice, safe, middle-class upbringing.
49. Her upbringing had not encouraged a romantic view of life.
50. He blamed his shyness and gauche manner on his upbringing, as the only child of elderly parents.
51. Davis' siblings appear less scarred by their loveless upbringing, according to prosecutors.
52. A countryman by upbringing, he was always deeply uneasy in towns and cities.
53. She had three children from her second marriage and immensely enjoyed their upbringing - dovetailing motherhood with a career working from home.
54. Reeves puts their humour down to their upbringing in Darlington and Middlesbrough respectively.
55. After an upbringing like his, dealing with an old autocrat like Balestre was, well, child's play.
56. Her privileged upbringing had not equipped her for hard work in the fields.
57. A truly good education is rooted in good family upbringing and parental love and guidance. Dr T.P.Chia
58. And his win-at-all-costs upbringing in Texas politics left no room for sentimentality.
59. Gedge had a straight-forward upbringing, but one with a fair degree of discipline.
60. Nor are they conditioned by upbringing or tradition to protect wildlife.
More similar words: bring in, ringing, engineering, mudslinging, coming in, changing, belonging, scavenging, stinginess, bring, bring up, bring out, bring down, bring about, bring back, bring together, bring forward, bring to a halt, bring home the bacon, ring finger, lingering, raging, ginger, dodging, rigging, nagging, jogging, logging, clogging, flagging.