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boor

noun as in unmannerly person

noun as in country bumpkin; peasant

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In an instant, his beach route comment did me a huge kindness and made me feel like an incurious boor.

Being a misogynist boor may offer temporary gratification, but in the long or even medium term, it will just make men's problems worse.

From Salon

Julianne Moore is his mother, a humorless scold whose coldness and impatience are seemingly understandable, as her son is such an insufferable boor.

The salt suggestion drew howls of outrage from tea-lovers in Britain, where popular stereotype sees Americans as coffee-swilling boors who make tea, if at all, in the microwave.

Back in 2016, though, which was apparently the “right time” for Trump, Haley was excoriating him for being a bloviating boor who would set a terrible example for America’s children.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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