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Boorishness   /bˈʊrɪʃnəs/   Listen
Boorishness

noun
1.
The manner of a rude or insensitive person.
2.
Inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor.  Synonym: uncouthness.





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"Boorishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... charm for Mr. Razumov. I left him hanging far over the parapet of the bridge. The way he had behaved to me could not be put down to mere boorishness. There was something else under his scorn and impatience. Perhaps, I thought, with sudden approach to hidden truth, it was the same thing which had kept him over a week, nearly ten days indeed, from coming near Miss Haldin. But what it ...
— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad


Words linked to "Boorishness" :   boorish, inelegance, rudeness, uncouthness, discourtesy


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