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Definition of Boorish
1. Adjective. Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance. "Aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
Similar to: Unrefined
Derivative terms: Boorishness
Definition of Boorish
1. a. Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly.
Definition of Boorish
1. Adjective. Behaving as a boor; rough in manners; rude; uncultured. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boorish
1. rude [adj] - See also: rude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boorish
Literary usage of Boorish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the Social by William Connor Sydney (1891)
"Isolation of provincial society—boorish manners of the peasantry—The squire—The
country parson as he was—The rural Sunday—Furniture of country ..."
2. The Englishwoman in Russia: Impressions of the Society and Manners of the by A lady (1855)
"... good bargain and a bad one—The gardener—A boorish audience—The peasants—
Superstitions and ignorance—Anecdotes. IN the summer-time the country in Russia ..."
3. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel (1874)
"... clownish, boorish ; churl its, insolent; 4. deep, base, broad (of a »oici);
jj-er Era^t, thick wire; .... boorish ..."
4. The Works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë by Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë (1896)
"been accustomed to a boorish sort of insolence from my youth up : the ' classe
ouvri^re '—that is, the working people in Belgium—bear themselves brutally ..."
5. Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein (1841)
"... to awkwardness : whereas agrestis, like boorish, has a reference to shamelessness
and vulgarity, is never used in a good sense, but borders on feritas, ..."
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