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
Loseurs: Witty, sophisticated humorists pretending to be juvenile, crude boors with a poop fixation.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 26, 2018
Hunting the Leopard.—Two boors in Southern Africa, in the year 1822, returning from hunting the hartebeest, fell in with a leopard in a mountain ravine, and immediately gave chase to him.
From Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
