boors

Example Sentences

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The salt suggestion drew howls of outrage from tea-lovers in Britain, where popular stereotype sees Americans as coffee-swilling boors who make tea, if at all, in the microwave.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2024

Women like Feinstein and O’Connor bore the bruises of boors on their way to the top so that future generations wouldn’t suffer as much.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2023

No beach has sand silky enough to risk navigating gaggles of solipsists committed to behaving like boors because the sea washes away all consequences.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2021

Loseurs: Witty, sophisticated humorists pretending to be juvenile, crude boors with a poop fixation.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2018

The entire population of the county was purely agrarian, the villeins and boors altogether numbering about 2,800; or on an average of one labourer to each 167 acres of land registered in Domesday Book. 

From The Annals of Willenhall by Hackwood, Frederick William