How To Use Boor In A Sentence
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I'm not sure the term insufferable boor is quite adequate here, I'm not saying that he's entirely without humor, but it's the sort of humor that is always tempered by a reminder of how much money he has and how he is holding it over his adult children.
Outfoxed Diary Entry
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Sturges was also quick to spot the feral intensity of Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine's brutal boorishness, using them to give Bad Day At Black Rock its seething core of twisted hatred.
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Though he is a boor, that is to be expected, as his father is an enlisted man.
I Met John Scalvi! « Whatever
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The people were different, but their boorishness was the same," he said in an interview published Thursday in the daily newspaper Izvestia.
Chron.com Chronicle
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In interview, he'll often segue into a boorish, rambling mode which - while always hilarious - still seems like performance.
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When you were the defending champion the next year, you were criticized by the British press for showing up late to a function and acting like a boor.
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It perpetuates the image of the boorish, boerewors eating, brandy drinking supporter when, in fact, our supporters are highly intelligent with a keen understanding of the game.
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A deserved multi-award-winner that's almost savoury but never boorish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the next few days I witnessed more of his boorish behaviour, to the annoyance of many around him.
Times, Sunday Times
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After a coupla days down here in Melbooring this week, I suggest leaving the boardies behind and bring down the possum fur jacket…
Cheeseburger Gothic » We’re thinking Longrain for Thursday in Melbourne.
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He was vain, egotistical, boorish and gloriously insensitive.
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Many years after we find him living in a remote district beyond the great Orange River, leading the life of a "trek-boor," -- that is, a nomade farmer, who has no fixed or permanent abode, but moves with his flocks from place to place, wherever good pastures and water may tempt him.
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
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The girl's afore-mentioned burden - a phenomenon - had been perpetually exacerbated by Carl's boorish, bullying behaviour towards her.
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Mountains of northern Spain leave their poor country for a time for the richer provinces of Portugal and Spain, where they become porters, water-carriers and scavengers, and are known as boorish, but industrious and honest.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
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He was lucky to have got away with his boorish behaviour towards women for so long.
The Sun
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Devotees of popular history will have met some of these stories in the work of Liza Picard, Witold Rybczynski, Daniel Boorstin and others, but it's hard to imagine a better synthesizer than Bryson, or a pithier aphorist.
Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson
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What we expect from them is boorish, simian behaviour that ratifies the anti-male sentiment that runs through the culture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Over the next seven decades, as pro sports increasingly became the city's remaining portal into the nation's consciousness, you could add the epithet "boorish" to "boring" -- there were snowballs at Santa Claus (sort of) and catcalls for just about anyone.
Will Bunch: How Philadelphia Got Its Groove Back -- And Why N.Y. Is Jealous
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Given in his oscillations of mood to a lugubrious woebegoneness ” "He could be just the saddest-looking thing," remembers Roger Wilkins, one of his administration deputies ” Johnson while president brooded ponderously over how he was discounted by the intellectual left as a blustering boor.
The Big Guy
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Locals complained about spitting, loud voices and boorish behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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At length we proceeded up the bed of a small river, Maumoo, which runs into the Booree Dihing close to the village: after wading along in the waters for two hours we arrived at a khet where we encamped.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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You say very true Gossip, replyed the Friar, and yet notwithstanding, doth not your Husband (both at boord and bed) enjoy the sweet benefit of your company?
The Decameron
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Jeremy Boorda, who was chief of naval operations.
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The transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock.
Les Miserables
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Let us sign this series off, then, with the 21-zamboorak salute it deserves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pegu: if any contrary wind had come, we had throwen many of our things ouer-boord: for we were so pestered with people and goods, that there was scant place to lie in.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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After nearly twenty years of being a drone, a drunkard and a boor, Stefan has become a philosopher.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Entering aboord the Barke, and making it their owne by full possession, all the men they threw over-boord, without sparing any but Landolpho himselfe, whom they mounted into one of the Carrackes, leaving him nothing but a poore shirt of
The Decameron
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His father Richard IV and his grandfather John II - hunters, debauchees, and all-round boorish men of action - had made a much better fist of things.
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Rather, it's very clear that Will cut the line because it was an inconvenient impediment to his journalistic goal, which was to portray Webb as a "boor" who was rude to the Commander in Chief, and to show that this new upstart is a threat to Washington's alleged code of "civility and clear speaking" (his words).
George Will Distorts WaPo's Own Reporting To Smear Jim Webb
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Seeing the camera, everyone acts boorishly and jostles to get in front.
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Because of this stencil, which is from James Tuck, Walter's father, who was in Boort only in the 1880s:
Museum Blogs
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Fans of studio politics everywhere understand that while Harvey's a boor, Bob is merely churlish, and boors hardly ever stand down for churls.
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You do not have to be black to have the Cambridge police act boorishly.
Discourse.net: Deconstructing the Police Report in the Skip Gates Arrest Case
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You've had enough of his boorish behaviour, right?
Times, Sunday Times
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There is the farmer's house, the house for guests (in which we lived), the men's house, the dairy, the bakehouse, and the "staboor," which is a kind of hayloft, stable, and manure shed all in one.
Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns
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Vpon whose approch their fellowes being more emboldened, did offer to boord the galliasse: against whom the gouernour thereof and Captaine of all the foure galliasses, Hugo de
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Unfortunately, this success seems to have come at a price, with certain sections of the crowd indulging in boorish, jeering and in some cases lewd behaviour.
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Looking back, it is clear that it is this interest in real people which saves Boorman's movie work.
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Wherefore, hauing taken certaine Scotish and other fisherboats, they brought the men on boord their ships, to the end they might be their guides and Pilots.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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You need the reader to understand at a glance that some character is supposed to be an intimidating badass, or a provincial boor, or a smarmy selfish jerk, or a naive idealist, or an uptight bluenose, the quickest way to do this is by cuing the reader by invoking some stereotype complex that includes these traits.
The Wisdom of Clowns
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We're bombarded with boorish cell phoners, disengaged and seemingly somnambulistic texters who walk in the middle of traffic Tweeting.
Lionel: Olfactory Terror at 36K Feet
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You don't have to search too hard to find examples of prominent rugby players guilty of boorish behaviour away from the pitch.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even in the most fastidious of times it is boorishly single-minded.
Be Excellent at Anything
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Stanley, for example, was often called a boor and a brute when in reality he was merely hiding a fine nature behind the armour necessary to resist native imposition and worse.
An African Adventure
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Boorman, son of the director John Boorman, had acted in 24 films since a childhood role in Deliverance in 1972.
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Five provinces have declared for young Stadt, and there will be inundation, conflagration, constupration, consternation, and every sort of nation and nations, fighting away, up to their knees, in the damnable quags of this will-o'-the-wisp abode of Boors.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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The filmmakers' desire to create an unstuffy, modern version of the Renaissance monarch merely turns him into a boorish, violent plug-ugly.
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It's possible to view a pirate as boorish and crass or as vivacious and life-loving.
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He was a wonderful family man, and he was also a self-important, self-preoccupied boor.
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life
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From USA Today: "To hear Premiere magazine tell it, Arnold Schwarzenegger is an uncouth boor who frequently groped women and engaged in extramarital liaisons.
Boing Boing: February 11, 2001 - February 17, 2001 Archives
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Vnto vs were daily brought aboord in Prauwes or Indian boats great quantity of hens, egs, Cocos, bonanos, sugar-canes, cakes, made of rice, and a certaine kinde of good drinke which is there made by the men of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III
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She claimed that loutish youths, prying locals and boorish day-trippers were making life intolerable.
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A boor's boor, he spends much of the book mewling about the end of England when he's exactly the sort of person England needs saving from.
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So he shud shurlie knoe dat STAR TREK iz da bestes fing sinsh sliced boorbun pound caek..lolspeechesh ish sharting tu sluurrr…mehbee Ai haz hadz enuff?
Bird watchin - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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And if you be disposed to goe through the Sound to the Southwards, keepe the Northwest shoare aboorde, for on the Island side after you be shotte so far in as the crosse, it is a shoale of rockes halfe the sound ouer: which rockes do last vnto the Southerly part of the great Island, and rather to the Southwards.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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A distorted habit of mind and the incredible difficulties of communication in the remote West during the first half of the nineteenth century had gradually caused James Ruan to sink his gentlehood in a wilful boorishness that left him a fierce pride of race and almost feudal powers, but the tastes and habits of his own labourers.
Secret Bread
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What is MY trying to say except that the evil neocons are boorishly insisting too loudly on points that he and his buddies consider deserving of more discrete modulation?
Matthew Yglesias » Birds of a Feather
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Fahrenheit 9/11 is not a documentary for the ages, it is an act of counterpropaganda that has a boorish, bullying force.
Edelstein on f9/11
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He swung from laying on the charm to cold-eyed boorishness and rudeness with alarming alacrity.
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So you will appreciate I have a right and a duty to speak out when I witness boorish and loutish behaviour on the streets of Sligo, from whatever quarter it comes.
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In fact, the Talmud describes the Zealots as biryonim, meaning "boorish" or "wild", and are condemned for their aggression, their unwillingness to compromise to save the survivors of besieged Jerusalem, and their blind-militarism.
The Days of the Assassin are Back
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You've had enough of his boorish behaviour, right?
Times, Sunday Times
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The peasant and market images, for example, render boorish figures (low subjects) in large scale, and classicizing poses (high form) in a manner designed to make viewers perceive their own vices and pretensions.
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Then our Master shot his boare-spear, and strooke him in the head, and made him to take the water, and swimme into a coue fast by, where we killed him, and brought him aboord.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.
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It is against this boorish cartel that 16 Yale students and recent alumni asserted themselves in a Title IX complaint brought against the institution last month—a complaint that could cost the university $500 million in federal funds.
Shutter Fraternities for Young Women's Good
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was boorish and insensitive
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I mean, is it this cartoonish that -- that he could just come out and forget about the merits of the argument one way or the other and just attack the messenger in this kind of boorish a way?
CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2009
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Locals complained about spitting, loud voices and boorish behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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What we expect from them is boorish, simian behavior that ratifies the antimale sentiment that runs through the culture," Parker writes.
The American Spectator
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At night, when all the City was still, came the walk under the evil-smelling boorka, the patrol through Jitha Megji's bustee, the quick turn into Amir Nath's Gully between the sleeping cattle and the dead walls, and then, last of all, Bisesa, and the deep, even breathing of the old woman who slept outside the door of the bare little room that
Plain Tales from the Hills
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You shall need alwayes to haue Argos eyes, to spie their secret packing and conueyance, aswell on land as aboord the shippe, of and for such furres and other commodities, as yeerely they doe vse to buy, packe and conuey hither.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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He was accused of being boorish, arrogant and thick.
The Sun
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You've had enough of his boorish behaviour, right?
Times, Sunday Times
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For years they smirked at the boorishness of patriotism, until it occurred to them: Why scoff when you can hijack?
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After nearly twenty years of being a drone, a drunkard and a boor, Stefan has become a philosopher.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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She has thrown herself away upon that boor from sheer ignorance that better individuals existed!
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The insinuations that he was a cold fish who never talked with players and sometimes conducted himself as a tactless boor are not true.
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Transcending the boorishness had been the unmistakable lure of the swashbuckler.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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He is a smug, self-pitying boor who turns the caring doctor stereotype on its head.
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He was lucky to have got away with his boorish behaviour towards women for so long.
The Sun
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His sister is married to a boor whom he has always loathed and suspects she has come to loathe also.
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There are three counts in my indictment: he was a humourless boor, he was the epitome of negativity and his legend far outstrips his actual achievement.
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Kathleen was the most otherly of what Isherwood always called the Others, those Blimps and boors he felt nipping at his heels.
Darling Me
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That may play itself out in terms of boorish behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Come on," he said, "you force someone to behave like a clumping boor, you give them no choice.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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His boorishness has always been a display of power, never of passionate desire.
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He was vain, egotistical, boorish and gloriously insensitive.
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What scared me wasn't his boorishness but the way he sounded delighted, as if he'd just realized these insights.
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In an ironically tender twist, the boorish facade turns out to conceal the soul of an artist.
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If this is the best you have, then vote for the 'boorish' McCain, you ignorant slouch.
GOP House Candidate Calls Black Newscaster "Uppity"
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I returned to the raft quietly seething with anger at such boorish behaviour.
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If Americans acted this way, we'd be called boorish or jingoistic.
The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE
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During the time of this their clamourous contending, the Judge being very willy willing to heare either party: Matteuzzo, upon a signe received from the other, which was a word in Masoes pleading, laide holde on the broken boord, as also on the Judges low-hanging
The Decameron
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For when he made haste towards Rome, and a mighty and dangerous tempest arising, he perceiued the Pilots to tremble, and to be vnwilling to commit themselues to the rigor of the stormie sea, himselfe first going on boord, and commanding the anchors to be weighed, brake foorth into these words: That we should sayle necessitie vrgeth: but that we should liue, it vrgeth not.
A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
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Sunday (9) at foure of the clocke in the morning we departed from this Island, the winde being at Southeast, and as we were cleere a sea boord the small Islandes and shoales, it came so thick with mistes that we could not see a base shotte from vs. Then we took in all our sailes to make little way.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Southeast with very much wind, raine and fogge, and very great store of ice a sea boorde: so we lay to the Southwest to attaine to one of the Islands to harbour vs if the weather did so extremely continue and to take in our boate, thinking it meete so to doe, and not to towe her in such weather.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The gleeful, defiant cheer "DRILL BABY, DRILL" has disappeared and those that boorishly barked it look like snails caught on a warm summer sidewalk.
Matthew Modine: Sucking Big Oil's Tit: We Are All Complicit in the World's Latest and Largest Oil Disaster
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The openwork piece will be about 3 metres in height and it is based on the Boor trees at Boor Tree Lane, which runs at the end of the park, along by the river.
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Will calls Webb a "boor" and a "pompous poseur" (two phrases that might have popped into Will's mind while shaving in the mirror that morning) and asserts Webb has "patent disrespect for the presidency".
George Will Faults Former Navy Secretary for "Making Waves"!
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No one messes with kick butt Phryne whether it is threatening her by post, behaving boorishly towards her at a party, or committing murder.
Murder in the Dark-Kerry Greenwood « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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And he shows that he can play something other than a loudmouthed boor.
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Item, that the fleete shal keep together, and not separate themselues asunder, as much as by winde and weather may be done or permitted, and that the Captaines, Pilots and masters shall speedily come aboord the Admiral, when and as often as he shall seeme to haue iust cause to assemble them for counsaile or consultation to be had concerning the affaires of the fleete and voyage.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Though the man I introduced to you last night looks somewhat boorish, he is a diamond in the rough.
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According to Le Carré and Boorman today we really are in the hands of fools and madmen.
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In an ironically tender twist, the boorish facade turns out to conceal the soul of an artist.
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And Junior interrupted him, ‘Because we don't like to put up with a bunch of party boors.’
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She even overcomes the boorishness of art director Stan who, evidently quite unimpressed by her sacking of lewd cartoonist Joey a few episodes back, tries to sexually force himself on her, then gleefully lets her give her client presentation with lipstick smeared on her teeth.
William Bradley: Mad Men: Breach One "Chinese Wall' and You Just Want to Breach Another One an Hour Later
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He was lucky to have got away with his boorish behaviour towards women for so long.
The Sun
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Rather, I believe, Goldstone, like so many others, reactively chooses the side of the Palestinians not because he is a self-hating Jew but because he boorishly assumes that the weaker party in any conflict is necessarily the aggrieved party.
Condemn His Report, But Welcome Goldstone
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A Merino ram from the Merryville Stud at Boorowa, in New South Wales, has attracted the top price at this year's Australian Sheep and Wool Show sale.
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Such rote interpretative strategies betray a lack of imagination, like the cocktail-party boor who laughs at every wisecrack.
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A fat, stalwart, bacchant, boorish race they are, giving signs of anything but fasting and flagellation; and I know of nothing that would so dissipate the romance which invests monks and nuns in the eyes of some, like bringing a ship-load of them over to this country, and letting their admirers see and smell them.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
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The marshal had acted boorishly, Donovan thought, likely because the communist chief knew he had the civil war under control.
Wild Bill Donovan
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It's a reversal of the premise of "Amadeus," in which the boor is the genius and the court favorite a composer possessing more in the way of political skill than musical gifts.
NYC reviews: 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,' 'La Bête,' 'A Life in the Theatre'
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To his detractors - mainly in the media, military and royalist elites - those same qualities make him a boorish, dangerous rabble-rouser.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the experts reckon his boorish behaviour means he could struggle to find a top-notch replacement.
The Sun
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But these days, bravado in men on screen plays chauvinistic and strength boorish, where for women, good sense is written as shrewish and vulnerability weak.
Emily Bracken: Romantic Comedies Are Dying Because Romance Is Dead
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And the experts reckon his boorish behaviour means he could struggle to find a top-notch replacement.
The Sun
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Overall, Smith's study in social boorishness stood up to a 40-minute York set, although his gentrified persona occasionally grated, and it would be fascinating to see how he handled a hostile crowd.
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Over the next few days I witnessed more of his boorish behaviour, to the annoyance of many around him.
Times, Sunday Times
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He and those three sons of his are ill-mannered boors, louts and womanizers.
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Thanks for ordering some savon here. ébouriffé (e) (ay-boor-ee-fay) adjective
Ebouriffe - French Word-A-Day
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Boortsag or borts'k, the small cakes made of flour, water and yeast and fried in oil, are still made, but primarily for use at various ceremonials and rites.
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Can't do much about the last -- boorishness is not illegal -- but plenty about the first two.
Archive 2009-07-01
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She even overcomes the boorishness of art director Stan, who, evidently quite unimpressed by her sacking of lewd cartoonist Joey a few episodes back, tries to sexually force himself on her, then gleefully lets her give her client presentation with lipstick smeared on her teeth.
William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One "Chinese Wall" and You Just Want To Breach Another One An Hour Later
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Locals complained about spitting, loud voices and boorish behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Principal Secretary on the occasion also felicitated erudite poet and versatile litterateur Mr. Arjun Dev Majboor and illustrious Kashmiri musician and artist Mr. Krishan Langoo.
Muslim-Pandit brotherhood, harmony intact:, Young Pandit artists showcase Kashmiri culture
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You don't have to search too hard to find examples of prominent rugby players guilty of boorish behaviour away from the pitch.
Times, Sunday Times
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According to this argument based on self-assertive aggressiveness, the boor was the man possessed of a strong personality, while the gentleman was relatively "impersonal.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
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Decent people are routinely infuriated, intimidated and frightened by the boorish minority - and that is why it has become such a huge political issue.
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Damn sight more than that boor behind the bar.
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If this was just a joke on his part then I apologize, but it came off rude and boorish.
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Boorishly grandly cooper convertible it, i guarded thrice of the epinephrin were willful on the brink equity sphalerite.
Rational Review
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She claimed that loutish youths, prying locals and boorish day-trippers were making life intolerable.
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Also, please do ignore these boorish Yanks who go about their business with flagrant disregard for military decorum and totally without charm.
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Clearly you are inter alia, boorish, emulous, elitist and irascible, but none of us is perfect!
Times, Sunday Times
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You don't have to search too hard to find examples of prominent rugby players guilty of boorish behaviour away from the pitch.
Times, Sunday Times
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What was it to him that these uneducated boors, in their feeble ignorance, tried constantly to entrap him into something which they called unorthodox, and to twist his words into the semblance of fancied heresy?
St. Winifred's, or The World of School
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Those who are delighted by the cathedral of Chartres and the Meninas of Velasquez may think that those who remain unaffected by these marvels are boors.
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But I look around me and I see too much introverted, narrow-minded, self-congratulating boorishness.
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(link) Picture a zumbooruk, and where the cannon goes, you place the first, typically male, rider.
Ccfinlay: Public Service Announcement
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Boortz stirred up fears that the virus was some sort of "bioterrorist" plot, asking, 'What better way to sneak a virus into this country than to give it to Mexicans?'
Field negro
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Boorman was still rehearsing them in semisecrecy, but they were coming on the sly to see Dickey for background on the characters, even voice coaching.
Summer of Deliverance
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He was accused of being boorish, arrogant and thick.
The Sun
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And the experts reckon his boorish behaviour means he could struggle to find a top-notch replacement.
The Sun
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He describes the behavior of these insufferable boors.
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When I had thus resolued my selfe, I went a boord of the shippe of Bengala, at which time it was the yeere of Touffon: concerning which Touffon ye are to vnderstand, that in the East
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Adrian is a boor and worse, and Lichi finds refuge at Andrew's place.
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Once again a boorish minority, high on drugs or drink, is to blame.
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He was said to be boorish and unmannerly and argumentative and moody and addicted to reading, of all things.
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Invisible ice cream cone - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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At big games there was were always some who would behave in a boorish manner.
Times, Sunday Times
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He clambers over the machinery with the agility of a monkey, hanging at giddy angles to watch Siegfried's latest bit of boorish behaviour.
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FDR was branded as a sick demented dictator, Truman was called a boorish drunk, Kennedy was a spineless commie dupe.
The Chimes at Midnight
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Instead, it would be more appropriate to attach the label "discourtesy" or boorishness," about which the Israeli prime minister should refrain from throwing stones.
TEXAS FAITH: Is extremism in defense of principle bad? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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For my grandfather, cops-much like baseball players and army veterans-acted as if their uniform gave them a license to behave boorishly.
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He was frequently appalled by the boorish and ungodly behavior he witnessed.
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Grampupus is fallen down but grinny sprids the boord.
Finnegans Wake
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In the afternoone the Basha came downe to the waterside against the shippe, and hauing the said ordinance placed, and charged, it was all shotte off to gratifie him: and presently after his departure backe, he permitted the factors to come aboord the shippe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Thus being at an anker against this riuer Iaic, and all our men being on land, sauing I, who lay sore sicke, and fiue Tartars whereof one was reputed a holy man, because he came from Mecka, there came vnto vs a boate with thirtie men well armed and appointed, who boorded vs, and began to enter into our barke, and our holy Tartar called
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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She was given to embarrassing conversational gaffes; he could be boorish and argumentative when drunk - which was often.
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That's the kind of enthusiast that is being driven into oblivion by self-serving, loudmouth boors who think that they invented the microprocessor.
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Now, they are a breed of spitting, littering, queue-jumping, bribing boors
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At big games there was were always some who would behave in a boorish manner.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Principal Secretary on the occasion also felicitated erudite poet and versatile litterateur Mr. Arjun Dev Majboor and illustrious Kashmiri musician and artist Mr. Krishan Langoo.
Muslim-Pandit brotherhood, harmony intact:, Young Pandit artists showcase Kashmiri culture
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At big games there was were always some who would behave in a boorish manner.
Times, Sunday Times
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Call me irresponsible, call me obsessed, call me a boor.
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That unfrequented little bay not far from here was our very own private hideout until some low, boorish money makers pushed their way in.
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He yawned boorishly and stretched his arms above his head of crimson spiky hair, leaning backwards for some emphasis of his boredom.
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Silver (2005) tells us that animal lovers in folktale serve a variety of functions, but one of the most important may be to instruct women to love “beastly” husbands in spite of their frightening or boorish qualities, possibly with the end of civilizing them, as in “Beauty and the Beast.”
The Vivisection of Bone, Part 1: Romancing the Bone
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The 73-year old former street-brawler now comes across as more of a genial, boorishly humorous gameshow host.
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We love a stoush as much as the next political junkie, but the performance of these two in the past week has crossed the threshold into boorishness.
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Was anyone else disturbed by yesterday's ‘will I greet him or will I biff him’ handshake so bearishly and boorishly inflicted on the PM?
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That may play itself out in terms of boorish behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The general run of London restaurants may be gastronomically indifferent, decoratively indistinguishable, staffed by sneering tyros and apprentice boors but there's no gainsaying the energy and optimistic bounce of the PR trade.
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Rather, it's very clear that Will cut the line because it was an inconvenient impediment to his journalistic goal, which was to portray Webb as a "boor" who was rude to the Commander in Chief, and to show that this new upstart is a threat to Washington's alleged code of "civility and clear speaking" his words.
Hullabaloo
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When your movement becomes the overdog, such people are boorish and obnoxious.
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What kind of boorish, tastless clods subscribe to this blog anyway???
Rifle Shopping at a Shotgun Shop
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Reuerent appearer no, I threwe her ouer-boord with these verie armes.
Pericles (1609 Quarto)
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He was a boor and a bully then who coasted to office on his fleshy, redneck looks and his father's reputation as the "sainted" legendary football coach of the Redskins.
VA-SEN: Mike Stark Details Allen Tackle Episode; Faults Media's Soft Coverage Of Race
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He was parsimonious, boorish and foul-tempered.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was accused of being boorish, arrogant and thick.
The Sun
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It is only a "boor" who seeks to impose his own hobbies and interests upon a stranger, disregarding entirely the presumable likes and dislikes of the latter.
Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises
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Zack / Pollock is a Hemingway-hero of a painter, a boorish macho with an elemental connection to his medium.
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On the other hand, while the characters may indeed be idolatrous, money-grubbing boors, the Americanisms they use in their speech suggest that these are values they picked up right here in the United States.
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Though the man I introduced to you last night looks somewhat boorish, he is a diamond in the rough.
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I found him rather boorish and aggressive.
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Spaniards to breake open the chests and to purloyne such money as was in them: notwithstanding that it was ordered at convenient leasure to haue gone on boord my selfe, and therein the presence of three or foure witnesses to haue taken a iust account thereof, and the same to haue put in safe keeping, according to the effects of articles receiued in this behalfe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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He's been given a priceless chance to put a positive spin on the events of his life, but still manages to come off as boorish, sexist and vulgar.
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I almost had him filed under arrogant boor, but then I caught him out being nice.
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Boudu rocks the household to its foundation with boorish behavior and manners befitting a beast.
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I tried not to gleam as I saw the principal's eyes enlarged with surprise; he had expected me to either kept quiet or curse boorishly.
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It might have been about having a choice between behaving like a sportsman or behaving like a boor and doing the latter because it suited him at the time.
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Devotees of popular history will have met some of these stories in the work of Liza Picard, Witold Rybczynski, Daniel Boorstin and others, but it's hard to imagine a better synthesizer than Bryson, or a pithier aphorist.
Book review: 'At Home' by Bill Bryson
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I fear I'm repeating them when I say that this comedy in rhymed verse does an all-too effective job in creating a boor who outstays his welcome.
Michael Giltz: Theater Reviews: "Lombardi" Scores A Field Goal; "La Bete" Better For Actors
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This kind of boorish behaviour will only attract investigative efforts.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Inhofe ‘Very Proud’ There’s Never Been a Homosexual Relationship in the ‘Recorded History of Our Family’
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In Bardi it was always maank ambooriny (= 'black people') or "aborigine" (as noun or adjective) in Aboriginal English.
Languagehat.com: ABORIGINES.
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With that the frigat came away with M. Rowit, and brought him aboord the English Admiral againe according to promise: who was no sooner entred in, but by and by defiance was sounded on both sides: the Spaniards hewed off the noses of the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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There is a Booroola breeder in Minnesota who had transferred the gene first to Dorset sheep, then to the Ile de France breed; there is a breeder in Canada who has transferred the gene to Texel sheep.
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