boorishness
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A Globe and Mail editorial in May described Hoekstra as being "keen to channel his boss’s aggressive boorishness."
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
I listened to my mother's commentary on what she considered their boorishness and insensitivity.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2023
It’s a quirky portrait that has the boorishness of novelty art.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
True, historically, British boors have shared little kinship with their American cousins; ours has been a wilier boorishness, obscured by a miasma of supercilious, ironic detachment.
From Washington Post ● May 30, 2019
The prefect did not know whether this speech was intended as a rebuff to his advances, but he took a charitable view of it, and ascribed it to awkwardness, rather than to intentional boorishness.
From 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story by John E. Copus
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