boor
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Is this not the conundrum of our time, and aren’t we fortunate to have this boor reminding us of this with each new episode?
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026
Most memorable is the exit of Pozzo and Lucky that finds Pozzo slowly pushing Lucky in his wheelchair—illustrating the idea that there remains a bedrock of humanity even in this supercilious boor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2025
In an instant, his beach route comment did me a huge kindness and made me feel like an incurious boor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024
I feel like British audiences can enjoy a boor being taken down a notch because it’s sort of what their press is famous for doing, poking holes in powerful people.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2022
“Yes it is,” said I, “because I cannot bear that people should say, ‘she throws away her graces and attractions on a mere boor, the lowest in the crowd.’”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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
"And these boors have corrupted it to Lessie!"
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey
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