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boorishness
noun as in awkwardness
noun as in bad manners
noun as in barbarity
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noun as in coarseness
noun as in ingratitude
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noun as in lewdness
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- carnality
- coarseness
- concupiscence
- corruptness
- debauchery
- depravity
- dirtiness
- dissoluteness
- eroticism
- erotism
- evil
- evilness
- grossness
- impurity
- incontinence
- incontinency
- lasciviousness
- lecherousness
- lechery
- licentiousness
- lubricity
- lustfulness
- obscenity
- pederasty
- pornography
- prurience
- pruriency
- ribaldry
- salaciousness
- salacity
- satyriasis
- scurrility
- smut
- smuttiness
- vileness
- villainy
- voluptuousness
- vulgarity
- wantonness
- wickedness
noun as in rudeness
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Example Sentences
His boorishness is rubbing off on the people who work for him.
I listened to my mother's commentary on what she considered their boorishness and insensitivity.
The story is told in a way that suggests the Japanese perspective, with the boorishness of Western imperialists often contrasting with the sophistication and refinement of Japanese culture.
Wilson might as well have been operating under Emily Post’s rules of etiquette compared with the boorishness of his Republican colleagues at Tuesday night’s State of the Union address.
“My shipmates are a bunch of swine! No enthusiasm for anything, unbelievable crudity, stupidity & malice,” he wrote a few days after enlisting, the first of many complaints about “insolence” and “boorishness.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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