Boorish
['bɔːrɪʃ;'bʊərɪʃ] or ['bʊrɪʃ]
Definition
(adj.) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; 'was boorish and insensitive'; 'the loutish manners of a bully'; 'her stupid oafish husband'; 'aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude' .
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Definition
(a.) Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Rustic, rude, clownish, loutish, bearish, awkward, clumsy, ungainly, coarse, rough, unrefined, uncourtly, ungraceful, gawky, lubberly.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CLOWNISH]
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Examples
- We became particularly hot upon some boorish sneer of Drummle's, to the effect that we were too free with our money. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And the inharmonious is cowardly and boorish? Plato. The Republic.
- Joe, you're an impudent dog; but I've always been accustomed to a boorish sort of insolence from my youth up. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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