boorish
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The boorish, puerile Farva — imagine an “Animal House” character its writers would have discarded as too crude — is the catalyst this time around by falling in love.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
"Bird-watchers are tense, competitive, selfish, shifty, dishonest, distrusting, boorish, pedantic, unsentimental, arrogant and - above all, envious" he wrote.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
By 2014, she says, “the abstemious, incorruptible leader had become a louche, boorish one.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
They uncovered Reddit posts, some from more than a decade ago, revealing a boorish man trading in proto-manospheric thought.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026
We became particularly hot upon some boorish sneer of Drummle’s, to the effect that we were too free with our money.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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