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boorishness
noun as in awkwardness
noun as in bad manners
noun as in barbarity
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noun as in coarseness
noun as in ingratitude
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noun as in lewdness
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- carnality
- coarseness
- concupiscence
- corruptness
- debauchery
- depravity
- dirtiness
- dissoluteness
- eroticism
- erotism
- evil
- evilness
- grossness
- impurity
- incontinence
- incontinency
- lasciviousness
- lecherousness
- lechery
- licentiousness
- lubricity
- lustfulness
- obscenity
- pederasty
- pornography
- prurience
- pruriency
- ribaldry
- salaciousness
- salacity
- satyriasis
- scurrility
- smut
- smuttiness
- vileness
- villainy
- voluptuousness
- vulgarity
- wantonness
- wickedness
noun as in rudeness
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Example Sentences
Those who knew Tenev and Bhatt at Stanford say the pair were more bookish than boorish.
Of course, their habitual drinking and general boorishness are not why they are unemployed.
More troubling is a weakness for the company of the super-rich and a reputation for boorishness.
Friendliness comes between the excessive desire to please and boorishness.
The never-failing goodness of the chevalier could not but overcome my boorishness; nay, more, it rapidly won my heart.
She had always resented the imputation of boorishness and lack of culture his enemies had made against the man she loved.
I see no evidence of the boorishness I have always associated with the lives of the Barons of England.
"I am having a very interesting and instructive morning in this atmosphere of Irish boorishness," said he.
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On this page you'll find 192 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to boorishness, such as: ignorance, ineptitude, amateurishness, artlessness, coarseness, and crudeness.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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