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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91. Crosfield was an enlightened employer in the paternalistic tradition, deeply influenced by his Quaker upbringing.
92. She will have responsibility for their upbringing, including a say in their future schooling and development.
93. Ware was a strict Palladian by upbringing but a stylistic schizoid by force of circumstances.
94. Slamming a door in some one's face has nothing to do with breeding or upbringing.
95. Daly was unfit for stardom by upbringing, by nature - he couldn't handle it.
96. Elizabeth's upbringing was certainly at the other end of the spectrum from Mary's.
97. They mobilised place of birth, residence, upbringing, and ancestry in ways familiar to us from our earlier studies.
98. Those with a particular political or religious upbringing may react strongly against that.
99. A new range of private law orders was introduced to provide for the care and upbringing of children. Sentencedict.com
100. In most cultures, men are conditioned by upbringing to develop inhibitions against inflicting harm, particularly on women.
101. She had a disjointed upbringing with a series of tutors.
102. It ran contrary both to his upbringing and personal code of behaviour that men should show emotion.
103. His upbringing, education and training had been based on the assumption that in any situation his class were the natural leaders.
104. His godly upbringing gave young Baxter a troubled conscience whenever he indulged in the usual boyish sins.
105. Stand by for a revealing insight into your childhood or upbringing.
106. There was no history of violence or physical hardship in my upbringing at all.
107. In short, an average upbringing, quite undramatic in many respects.
108. Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather, much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking.
109. But his animal nature clashes with his human upbringing.
110. Part of answer, of course, lay in his upbringing.
111. to have had a sheltered upbringing.
112. He had a fairly cushy upbringing.
113. She regretted the rigidity of her upbringing.
114. As with all societies, behavioural patterns stem from upbringing.
115. They perform most of their songs in Xhosa , songs that talk about their cultures and upbringing n.
116. Though his Episcopalian upbringing was, as he says, only conventionally religious, everything changed during his last two years at Princeton.
117. I think it was Allen's gentle upbringing by classical musician parents that gave him so much joie de vivre.
118. What does correlate highly with sex offense is a strict, repressive religious upbringing.
119. Despite her religious upbringing, Aileen was decidedly a victim of her temperament.
120. A Fredericton university student says he turned to Islam after feeling let down by his Christian upbringing.
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.