boorish
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It’s a little grating to see boorish Tony offer him business tips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
"Bird-watchers are tense, competitive, selfish, shifty, dishonest, distrusting, boorish, pedantic, unsentimental, arrogant and - above all, envious" he wrote.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Critics of de la Espriella have also come down hard on him for what they say is boorish behavior, lately with women journalists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 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
This action on my part led to a rather loud and defiantly boorish roar of protest from the collective workers, who began to regard me with sullen eves.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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