Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a boorish manner.
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- adverb In a
boorish manner;uncultured .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb like a boor,
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Examples
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BRIDESMAIDS $34.98 BluRay combo or $29.98 DVD; Universal -- If watching chicks behave as boorishly as dudes is your idea of funny, then this flick is for you.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: The King And Still Champ: "Citizen Kane" Michael Giltz 2011
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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 Douglas Waller 2011
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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 2009
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BRIDESMAIDS $34.98 BluRay combo or $29.98 DVD; Universal -- If watching chicks behave as boorishly as dudes is your idea of funny, then this flick is for you.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: The King And Still Champ: "Citizen Kane" Michael Giltz 2011
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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 Douglas Waller 2011
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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?
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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.
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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.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Condemn His Report, But Welcome Goldstone 2010
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Even in the most fastidious of times it is boorishly single-minded.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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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.
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