boorish
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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
An exodus of prosecutors who didn’t care for his staff screaming sessions and boorish press conferences.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026
He later took on recurring roles in CBS's The Good Wife and spin-off The Good Fight, as boorish law partner Howard Lyman, and FX's Rescue Me, as New York fire station chief Sidney Feinberg.
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2025
He didn’t want to think about Rosamund—or about the boorish husband she’d left him for.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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