Sentence example with the word 'boorishness'

boorishness

Definition n. the manner of a rude or insensitive person

Last update: August 29, 2015


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"My mistress, daughter of General in Chief Prince Nicholas Bolkonski who died on the fifteenth of this month, finding herself in difficulties owing to the boorishness of these people"--he pointed to the peasants--"asks you to come up to the house....   [Please select]

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Boorishness was defined as an inexperience of the customs and laws of the state.   [Please select]

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In his boorishness and courtesy, his healthy animalism and encyclopædic intellect, his hatred of society and insistence on living in it, he was to me a perplexing bundle of anomalies.   [Please select]

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He was scarcely prepared for the bumpkin's curt refusal, but put it down to native boorishness, and thought no more about it then.   [Please select]

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