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/bˈʊrɪʃnəs/ Listen

Boorishness

noun

The manner of a rude or insensitive person.

Inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor. Synonym: uncouthness.

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"Boorishness" Quotes from Famous Books

... Whigs were much the same to him as cleaving firewood. He did his duty with a stupid unconcern which successfully imposed on the soldiers; and as soon as they allowed him to go, he fell to his wood-chopping with the same stolidity and rustic boorishness that ...

— The Junior Classics • Various

... his education or his 'company' manners. The old folk noted his boorishness and lack of the little refinements which mark the gentleman. His very voice was rude and hoarse, and seemed either to grumble or to roar forth his meaning. They had frequently heard him speak in public—he was generally on the platform when any local movement was in progress—and could not ...

— Hodge and His Masters • Richard Jefferies

... me down upon my feet his face was bent close to mine and I did the only thing a gentleman might do under the circumstances of brutality, boorishness, and lack of consideration for a stranger's rights; I swung my fist squarely to his jaw and he went down like a felled ox. As he sunk to the floor I wheeled around with my back toward the nearest desk, expecting to be overwhelmed by the vengeance of his fellows, but ...

— A Princess of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs

Words linked to "Boorishness" : rudeness, discourtesy, boorish, inelegance