Sentence example with the word 'boorish'

boorish

all thumbs, caddish, countrified, gawkish, hooliganish, left-hand, maladroit, rowdy, tasteless, ungentlemanly, up-country

Definition adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance

Last update: January 2, 2016


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The comedian’s jokes were so vulgar and boorish that the only ones left in the audience were those who were too drunk to be offended.   [Please select]

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Even though the pirate captain was brutal and boorish with his men, he was always courteous to the female captives.   [Please select]

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These events brought revolution to the gates of the kingdom of Naples, the worst-governed part of Italy, where the boorish king, Ferdinand IV.   [Please select]

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He is perfectly gauche and boorish in his manner--" "Why, mamma, he has beautiful manners.   [Please select]

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The boorish manners of the father offended the finer spirit of the son.   [adjective]

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For all his boorish ways, he was an excellent man at heart.   [Please select]

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Falconer, and a judicious improver of his property without becoming a boorish two-legged steer like Killancureit.   [Please select]

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He made his confession defiantly, with a certain boorish pride in his ignorance and his degradation.   [Please select]

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Some birds, especially many of our beautiful native species, are sensitively organized, and cannot endure such boorish society as the badly bred foreigners furnish.   [Please select]

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I was almost frightened at such sweet politeness--I who had been accustomed to boorish German knocks in the ribs without any apology at all.   [Please select]

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