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boorish

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boor·ish  (brsh)
adj.
Resembling or characteristic of a boor; rude and clumsy in behavior.
boorish·ly adv.
boorish·ness n.
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Adj.1.boorish - ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
loutish, neanderthal, oafish, swinish, neandertal
unrefined - (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
boorish
adjective loutish, gross, crude, rude, hick (informal), chiefly U.S., Canad. coarse, vulgar, rustic, barbaric, churlish, uneducated, bearish, uncouth, unrefined, uncivilized, clownish, oafish, ill-bred, lubberly << OPPOSITE refined
Translations
boorish [ˈbuərɪʃ] adj → grosero
boorish [ˈbuərɪʃ] adj → grossier/ère, rustre
boorish [ˈbuərɪʃ] adj → rüpelhaft
boorish [ˈbuərɪʃ] adj → maleducato/a


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we became particularly hot upon some boorish sneer of Drummle's, to the effect that we were too free with our money.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
Von Blix was rough and boorish, but Tudor was gracefully easy in everything he did, or looked, or said.
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These, after exhausting other modes of amusement, now thronged about Hester Prynne with rude and boorish intrusiveness.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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