boorish

  • 11boorish — adjective we will not tolerate such boorish behavior from our officers Syn: coarse, uncouth, rude, ill bred, ill mannered, uncivilized, unrefined, rough, thuggish, loutish, oafish, lubberly, lumpen; vulgar, unsavory, gross, brutish, Neanderthal …

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  • 12boorish — UK [ˈbʊərɪʃ] / US [ˈbʊrɪʃ] adjective rude and not caring about other people s feelings his boorish behaviour Derived words: boorishly adverb boorishness noun uncountable …

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  • 13boorish — boor ► NOUN ▪ a rough and bad mannered person. DERIVATIVES boorish adjective boorishly adverb boorishness noun. ORIGIN Low German b r or Dutch boer farmer …

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  • 14boorish — adjective 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 • Syn: ↑loutish, ↑neanderthal, ↑nean …

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  • 15boorish — adjective Behaving as a boor; rough in manners; rude; uncultured. See Also: boor, boorishly, boorishness …

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  • 16boorish — Synonyms and related words: all thumbs, awkward, barbarian, barbaric, blunderheaded, blundering, bucolic, bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, caddish, careless, carlish, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, clumsy fisted, coarse,… …

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  • 17boorish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. ill mannered, vulgar, rude; rustic, clownish. See vulgarity, discourtesy. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. ill mannered, clumsy, churlish, insensitive; see rude 1 , 2 . See Synonym Study at rude . III… …

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  • 18boorish — boor·ish || bÊŠÉ™rɪʃ adj. loutish, coarse, ill bred, uncivilized …

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  • 19boorish — a. Rustic, rude, clownish, loutish, bearish, awkward, clumsy, ungainly, coarse, rough, unrefined, uncourtly, ungraceful, gawky, lubberly …

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  • 20boorish — adj 1. rude, vulgar, uncouth, coarse, unmannerly, ill mannered, ill bred; churlish, brutish, barbaric, crude, crass, base, low, vile, contemptible; loutish, oafish, doltish, cloddish, stolid, clodhopping, gawkish or gawky, lubberly, lumpish,… …

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