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Boorishness

noun

The manner of a rude or insensitive person.

Inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor. Synonym: uncouthness.

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"Boorishness" Quotes from Famous Books

... Russian had exhibited every trait of his true character—selfishness, boorishness, arrogance, cowardice, and lust. Twice had he and Clayton come to blows because of Thuran's attitude toward the girl. Clayton dared not leave her alone with him for an instant. The existence of the Englishman and his fiancee was one continual ...

— The Return of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... the Flora, that I am loth to recount the following anecdote; yet I hardly think it ought to be omitted, for it is characteristic in a double aspect. It exhibits at once the chivalric courtesy and the coarse boorishness of some classes in the naval service of France, at the period I ...

— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer

... were reborn as he left the study, unattended. Had he any right to inflict this specimen on Creighton? He could only hope that the detective's sense of humor would prove a buffer between him and his patron's boorishness. If not— ...

— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston

... not easy to be offended with Hollowell's kind-hearted boorishness, and after he had gone, Margaret sat a long time reflecting upon this new specimen of man in her experience. She was getting many new ideas in these days, the moral lines were not as clearly drawn as she had thought; it was impossible to ticket ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... this boorishness of speech and conduct, but it was habitual with the mate—he apparently knew no better—the skipper was becoming accustomed to it by this time, and, without noticing it, ...

— The Missing Merchantman • Harry Collingwood

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