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

So, too, as it appears to me, we may explain the recurrent complaints of his unhappy loves and of his desires frustrated by one and another of the boors.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins