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
Again and again, Diana and Barbara have to endure and deflect unwanted male attention; you may lose count of all the run-of-the-mill boors and slobbering predators they have to fend off, and you’re meant to.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2020
Loseurs: Witty, sophisticated humorists pretending to be juvenile, crude boors with a poop fixation.
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2018
This is the “pauw” or “wild peacock,”—a peacock only in the phraseology of the boors, for the bird is a bustard, and the largest of his tribe—the Otis kori.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
