boors

Example Sentences

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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

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

Cries for “civility” are often the last refuge of boors.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2021

True, historically, British boors have shared little kinship with their American cousins; ours has been a wilier boorishness, obscured by a miasma of supercilious, ironic detachment.

From Washington Post • May 30, 2019

Trust me, cousin, we will teach these boors such a lesson as they shall long remember.

From My Lady Rotha A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.