How To Use Boorishness In A Sentence
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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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I enjoyed Georgi Markov's memoir exposing the venality and boorishness of Todor Zhivkov's regime (which was, along with his radio broadcasts, to cost Markov his life), and Atanas Slavov's novel With the Precision of Bats.
Circus Bulgaria by Deyan Enev – review
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However, it will find its legs with women young and old who will spark to a romance without the off-color humor and male boorishness that so often accompanies romantic fare these days.
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(For Khamstvo the dictionary suggests "boorishness" as a translation, but that seems too mild to my Russian sense of this word.)
Kham Stvo?
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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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Instead, it would be more appropriate to attach the label "discourtesy" or boorishness," about which the Israeli prime minister should refrain from throwing stones.
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But I look around me and I see too much introverted, narrow-minded, self-congratulating boorishness.
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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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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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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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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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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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His boorishness has always been a display of power, never of passionate desire.
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Transcending the boorishness had been the unmistakable lure of the swashbuckler.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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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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He swung from laying on the charm to cold-eyed boorishness and rudeness with alarming alacrity.
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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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The people were different, but their boorishness was the same," he said in an interview published Thursday in the daily newspaper Izvestia.
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