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Inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor
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boorishness
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the manner of a rude or insensitive person inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor [syn: uncouthness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or characteristic of being a boor or of being boorish; boorish behaviour.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boorish \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.
Usage examples of boorishness.
Bogucharovo, when he introduced hospitals and schools and reduced the quitrent the peasants had to pay, had not softened their disposition but had on the contrary strengthened in them the traits of character the old prince called boorishness.
Not even the excuse that he'd been drugging (acceptable on most Heart Worlds, though not in the Fringe) could mitigate his unforgivable boorishness.
Americans abroad, from the period of Mark Twain onward, have been notorious exemplars of the idea, representing as conspicuously as possible the innocent belief that Europeans and Asians, living in older, stuffier environments, should be refreshed and wakened to their own natural innocencies by the unadulterated boorishness of a product of God's Country, our sweet American soil, and our Bill of Rights.