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Definition of boorish in English: boorishadjectiveˈbɔːrɪʃˈbʊərɪʃˈbʊrɪʃ Rough and bad-mannered; coarse. Example sentencesExamples - Decent people are routinely infuriated, intimidated and frightened by the boorish minority - and that is why it has become such a huge political issue.
- In interview, he'll often segue into a boorish, rambling mode which - while always hilarious - still seems like performance.
- So you will appreciate I have a right and a duty to speak out when I witness boorish and loutish behaviour on the streets of Sligo, from whatever quarter it comes.
- If this was just a joke on his part then I apologize, but it came off rude and boorish.
- She claimed that loutish youths, prying locals and boorish day-trippers were making life intolerable.
- He's been given a priceless chance to put a positive spin on the events of his life, but still manages to come off as boorish, sexist and vulgar.
- It's possible to view a pirate as boorish and crass or as vivacious and life-loving.
Synonyms coarse, uncouth, rude, discourteous, impolite, ungentlemanly, unladylike, ill-bred, ill-mannered, churlish, gruff, uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unsophisticated, unrefined, common, rough, thuggish, loutish crude, vulgar, crass, tasteless, unsavoury, gross, lumpen, brutish, bearish, barbaric, barbarous, Neanderthal, philistine informal clodhopping, cloddish, slobbish, plebby British informal yobbish Australian/New Zealand informal ocker
Derivativesadverbˈbʊərɪʃliˈbɔːrɪʃliˈbʊrɪʃli Seeing the camera, everyone acts boorishly and jostles to get in front. Example sentencesExamples - He yawned boorishly and stretched his arms above his head of crimson spiky hair, leaning backwards for some emphasis of his boredom.
- For my grandfather, cops-much like baseball players and army veterans-acted as if their uniform gave them a license to behave boorishly.
- I tried not to gleam as I saw the principal's eyes enlarged with surprise; he had expected me to either kept quiet or curse boorishly.
- The 73-year old former street-brawler now comes across as more of a genial, boorishly humorous gameshow host.
nounˈbɔːrɪʃnəsˈbʊərɪʃnəsˈbʊrɪʃnəs His boorishness has always been a display of power, never of passionate desire. Example sentencesExamples - What scared me wasn't his boorishness but the way he sounded delighted, as if he'd just realized these insights.
- But I look around me and I see too much introverted, narrow-minded, self-congratulating boorishness.
- He swung from laying on the charm to cold-eyed boorishness and rudeness with alarming alacrity.
- For years they smirked at the boorishness of patriotism, until it occurred to them: Why scoff when you can hijack?
Definition of boorish in US English: boorishadjectiveˈbʊrɪʃˈbo͝oriSH Rough and bad-mannered; coarse. Example sentencesExamples - If this was just a joke on his part then I apologize, but it came off rude and boorish.
- In interview, he'll often segue into a boorish, rambling mode which - while always hilarious - still seems like performance.
- Decent people are routinely infuriated, intimidated and frightened by the boorish minority - and that is why it has become such a huge political issue.
- She claimed that loutish youths, prying locals and boorish day-trippers were making life intolerable.
- So you will appreciate I have a right and a duty to speak out when I witness boorish and loutish behaviour on the streets of Sligo, from whatever quarter it comes.
- It's possible to view a pirate as boorish and crass or as vivacious and life-loving.
- He's been given a priceless chance to put a positive spin on the events of his life, but still manages to come off as boorish, sexist and vulgar.
Synonyms coarse, uncouth, rude, discourteous, impolite, ungentlemanly, unladylike, ill-bred, ill-mannered, churlish, gruff, uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unsophisticated, unrefined, common, rough, thuggish, loutish
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