boorishly

Example Sentences

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But after behaving boorishly, Medvedev at least sounded sheepish.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2022

And the fact that some of your higher-ups don’t seem to notice he courts their good opinion while acting boorishly isn’t shocking.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2019

Although Richards amazingly could now stretch and bend his body into any shape as Mr. Fantastic, for example, he could be as boorishly long-winded and pompous as ever.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2018

It is back in the news because Taibbi just wrote a new book, and interviewers are asking him why he and Ames acted so boorishly back then.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2017

"You are worse," he replied boorishly; "you're a Fletcher."

From The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson