boors

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Boors and bullies are these days most often put down in the long run of events.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shakespeare's Katherina is 'tamed' by hunger and weariness, but in The Boors, the reverse is true.

From Time Magazine Archive

Boors may not always thrive under Communism, as Nikita Khrushchev so sadly learned�but boars do fine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Boors in blouses were galloping the great-hoofed beasts down the course by fours and sixes; the ribbons and manes fluttered; the whips cracked, and the owners hallooed in patois.

From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by Townsend, George Alfred

Although I am for raising the Characters in Pastoral somewhat above the degree of Boors and Clowns; yet no one is more for retaining the Pastoral Simplicity.

From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Purney, Thomas