boorishness
Example Sentences
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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
It is not a metaphor – a symbol for incompetence, boorishness, impoliteness or stupidity.
From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2019
Foster should apologize and move on rather than cynically trying to profit from his boorishness.
From Washington Times • Jul. 17, 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 Copus, John E.
