Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being boorish; clownish-ness; rusticity; coarseness of manners.
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- noun The state or characteristic of being a
boor or of beingboorish ;boorish behaviour .
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- noun the manner of a rude or insensitive person
- noun inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor
Etymologies
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Examples
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Can't do much about the last -- boorishness is not illegal -- but plenty about the first two.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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"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 2010
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(For Khamstvo the dictionary suggests "boorishness" as a translation, but that seems too mild to my Russian sense of this word.)
Kham Stvo? Carlisle, Olga Andreyev 1980
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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.
William Bradley: Mad Men: Breach One "Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later William Bradley 2010
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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.
William Bradley: Mad Men: Breach One "Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later William Bradley 2010
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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.
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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.
Circus Bulgaria by Deyan Enev – review Tibor Fischer 2010
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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.
William Bradley: Mad Men: Breach One "Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later William Bradley 2010
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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.
William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One 'Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later William Bradley 2010
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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.
William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One "Chinese Wall" and You Just Want To Breach Another One An Hour Later William Bradley 2010
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