boorishness

• “Can't do much about the last -- boorishness is not illegal -- but plenty about the first two.”

  Archive 2009-07-01

• “The people were different, but their boorishness was the same," he said in an interview published Thursday in the daily newspaper Izvestia.”

  chron.com Chronicle

• “(For Khamstvo the dictionary suggests "boorishness" as a translation, but that seems too mild to my Russian sense of this word.)”

  Kham Stvo?

• “However, it will find its legs with women young and old who will spark to a romance without the off-color humor and male boorishness that so often accompanies romantic fare these days.”

  Twilight Lexicon » Remember Me: Early Reviews Are In

• “I enjoyed Georgi Markov's memoir exposing the venality and boorishness of Todor Zhivkov's regime (which was, along with his radio broadcasts, to cost Markov his life), and Atanas Slavov's novel With the Precision of Bats.”

  The Guardian: Circus Bulgaria by Deyan Enev – review

• “She even overcomes the boorishness of art director Stan who, evidently quite unimpressed by her sacking of lewd cartoonist Joey a few episodes back, tries to sexually force himself on her, then gleefully lets her give her client presentation with lipstick smeared on her teeth.”

  The Huffington Post: William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One 'Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later

• “She even overcomes the boorishness of art director Stan, who, evidently quite unimpressed by her sacking of lewd cartoonist Joey a few episodes back, tries to sexually force himself on her, then gleefully lets her give her client presentation with lipstick smeared on her teeth.”

  The Huffington Post: William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One "Chinese Wall" and You Just Want To Breach Another One An Hour Later

• “But when it comes to his alleged sexual boorishness, he stands condemned of being a man.”

  The Washington Post: Time to forget the Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill story

• “What would he do home — watch million dollar union militant athletes demonstrate boorishness and indifference to fundamentals?”

  Fictionaut: Heart vs. Head

• “The dynamic that brings people to DC as political journalists is fundamentally unhealthy – the worst ones get there and ascend, and by “the worst ones” I mean that they represent qualities most of us find distasteful, like boorishness and outsized sense of self-importance.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Note, Mike Allen Fans Flag Non-Story

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