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boorishly





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Mr. Niemann brushed off all advice, predicting he’d soon play at such an exceptional level that he’d get invited to tournaments no matter how boorishly he behaved.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 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

I have often earnestly requested him to eat his sword rather than handle it so boorishly.

From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Marie Corelli


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