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
His boorishness is rubbing off on the people who work for him.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 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
Sir Richard Steele lodged here, also Thomas Moore and Crabbe, the poet, during one of his later visits to London, when contact with cultured men had rubbed off his early boorishness.
From The Strand District The Fascination of London by Sir Walter Besant
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