Party pest

Usage examples of boor.

What did he have in common with this Cain come to judgment, this bemedaled swaggering boor who rejoiced in having reduced all the subtleties of conscious thought to rigidly simple, unavoidable alternatives: kill or be killed!

I ordered tea and an English muffin and waited half an hour for it to arrive, all the while suffering the bickering and feeding noises of a huge family of Northern boors at the next table.

I can distinguish your jargon, when like ignorant boors ye talk all at once, tearing my ears to shreds with such unmelodious tongueclatter!

They are highwaymen and boors, who glean pleasure from the fear and loss they bring to others.

The window in the provinces replaces the theatre and the promenade, she was amusing herself with watching the crowd of boors when she saw a gentleman in a green velvet coat.

He did not send me here to fawn and cringe, And coax these boors into good humour.

I had come to think of Dartmoor as a place of small stone cells in which manacled men lay eternally on the Boor, groaning.

Men and women who have never seen the green hills of Ireland, paint Irish characters as boors and blunderers and make them say ludicrous things and use such language as is never heard within the four walls of Ireland.

She might so easily have loved a fool or a boor and found out too late, as had Jane, or her sister Angela, a man with no ability to imagine how things might be for the female principal in his life - a lack of comprehension amounting to xenophobia.

Brianne found most to be charming and witty, intent on leaving her with a good impression, though occasionally she would be captured in the arms of a boor, one with very obvious intentions.

He may know a writer to be an irritating boor and yet realize the writer book may be great.

Some say you were rude to the duke, but from what I know of that boor, there must have been some cause.

Their god was a horror, a boor upon a mountain, wielding thunder and lightning.

An arrogant boor of a young warrior, Callatl never let her pass without making a rude comment, gesture, or worse.

The boors on the Caffre frontier were often plundered by the bushmen, and perhaps occasionally by some few of the Caffres who were in a lawless state on the frontier.