Sentence examples for boorishness from inspiring English sources
'boorishness' is a correct and usable word in written English
It refers to behavior that is rude, impolite, and lacking in social grace. You can use it in situations where someone is being intentionally offensive or uncivilized, often due to their lack of understanding or consideration for others. For example: "His constant interrupting and belittling of others during the meeting was a clear display of his boorishness."
noun
The state or characteristic of being a boor or of being boorish; boorish behaviour.
Mr Cohen laments how the industry has been slow to shed its reputation for boorishness, though even he admits there has to be a "balanced attitude" to modernisation.
Such boorishness becomes cruel and vicious when it assumes a public aspect.
I earnestly hope you are not implying that the above mentioned majority of Americans who are secondary prepared are uneducated, for to do so would be evidence of boorishness common among the educated classes.William WhelehanChicagoRunning lowSIR – America will not adopt constraints on its emissions when a new president is inaugurated ("Get the price right", January 19th).
(In childhood, he had toured the market with the family cook; despite his boorishness, his background was aristocratic, and his father an officer at court).
Last week he dismissed the Duma as noteworthy only for "anarchy" and "boorishness", and threatened it with dissolution.In this section Tiny problems Greater, poorer Our trespasses Tu embarrassing Boris Yeltsin's unruly brood Confounded Communists Fiddling ReprintsMr Yeltsin is bullying a baby.
Their caricatures in the last field were very thinly veiled; Eduard Thöny, one of this group, was especially popular for the way he conveyed the upper-class boorishness of Prussian officers.
The book's disarming and companionable tone only grates when descending into dressing-room boorishness – various batsmen parrying his question of whether scoring a century is "better than sex" with varying degrees of wit.
It's true to his character that he feels embarrassed not for Chebutykin and his boorishness but because he does not want Chebutykin to be embarrassed by noticing his presence.
It was hard to say whether the conversation was more humiliating for her or for him, with his boorishness so plainly on display.
Working with Hollywood and the media, they recast the Corps's reputation for boorishness and violence as an ethic of courage and loyalty.
He can't quite bring it off — his acquired British self-deprecation stumbles into an American boorishness.
