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Boorish

Boorish Meaning & Definition
Boorish Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Boorish?

[adj] ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Boorish: loutish | neandertal | neanderthal | oafish | swinish | unrefined

Related Terms | Find terms related to Boorish: all thumbs | awkward | barbarian | barbaric | blunderheaded | blundering | bucolic | bumbling | bungling | butterfingered | caddish | careless | carlish | churlish | cloddish | clodhopping | clownish | clumsy | clumsy-fisted | coarse | countrified | country-born | country-bred | crude | cumbersome | farmerish | fingers all thumbs | from the sticks | fumbling | gauche | gawkish | gawky | graceless | ham-fisted | ham-handed | hayseed | heavy-handed | hick | hicky | hobnailed | hooliganish | hulking | hulky | ill-bred | ill-mannered | impolite | inconsiderate | inelegant | insensitive | inurbane | left-hand | left-handed | loobyish | loutish | louty | lowbred | lubberly | lumbering | lumpen | lumpish | maladroit | nasty | oafish | offensive | outlandish | ponderous | provincial | raffish | robustious | roughneck | rowdy | rowdyish | rube | rude | ruffianly | rugged | rustic | sloppy | stiff | tactless | tasteless | uncivil | uncivilized | uncouth | uncultivated | uncultured | unfeminine | ungainly | ungenteel | ungentle | ungentlemanly | ungraceful | ungracious | unhandy | unladylike | unpoised | unpolished | unrefined | unsolicitous | unwieldy | up-country | vulgar | yokel | yokelish

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Boorish In Webster's Dictionary

\Boor"ish\, a. Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly. -- {Boor"ish*ly}, adv. -- {Boor"ish*ness}, n. Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion. --Milton.

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