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Is this not the conundrum of our time, and aren’t we fortunate to have this boor reminding us of this with each new episode?

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

Most memorable is the exit of Pozzo and Lucky that finds Pozzo slowly pushing Lucky in his wheelchair—illustrating the idea that there remains a bedrock of humanity even in this supercilious boor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024

Jesse Eisenberg stars as a meek data processor, grinding it out in corporate hell; he also plays the same man’s long-repressed id, a self-confident boor who creeps into his life and begins taking it over.

From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2021

The mayor was a corrupt boor, the food turned your guts runny, but he held a good thought for them.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

Women like Feinstein and O’Connor bore the bruises of boors on their way to the top so that future generations wouldn’t suffer as much.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

No beach has sand silky enough to risk navigating gaggles of solipsists committed to behaving like boors because the sea washes away all consequences.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2021

Because Britain has a long history of indulging, even elevating, its political boors, though this is not always acknowledged.

From Washington Post ● May 30, 2019

Groot Willem observed that the ostrich may be easily domesticated, and he had frequently seen tame ones about the kraals of the frontier boors.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid