What is "boorish"

Usage examples of "boorish".

Our adversaries do not deny that even here there is a system of law and penalty: and surely we cannot in justice blame a dominion which awards to every one his due, where virtue has its honour, and vice comes to its fitting shame, in which there are not merely representations of the gods, but the gods themselves, watchers from above, and--as we read--easily rebutting human reproaches, since they lead all things in order from a beginning to an end, allotting to each human being, as life follows life, a fortune shaped to all that has preceded--the destiny which, to those that do not penetrate it, becomes the matter of boorish insolence upon things divine.

Though his manners were somewhat boorish, he was always as neat as a new pin and he took his snuff in a lordly way, like a man who knows that his snuff-box is always likely to be filled with maccaboy, so that when Mme.

He stood for a second, dipped his knees slightlysomething my father always did when his underwear got stuck in some netherland crevice, instructing me, a mere boy, that this was the civilized alternative to manual extrication, that boorish hobby of the underprivileged and the insaneand then sat down again in the black and ivory barber chair, refreshed and jacketless, his steel-drum chest eliminating any slight pleat or wrinkle from the muted blue shirt he was wearing.

There are boorish men and roughnecks among the Terrans as well as on the streets of Thendara.

In fact, you know, I more or less avoided him after that evening, as much as one could do without being positively boorish, do you see?

Since the day he had murdered his pretty, boorish brother-in-law he had begun to undergo a transformation.

He thought for a moment of ignoring Rolfs obvious expectation, but then decided that he didnt want to appear boorish in Trudis eyes.

Colryn visibly summoning up patience and courtesy toward the boorish stranger, and felt ashamed.

He has no wish to explain these acquired tastes to the boorish diners—.

Others see the matter merely as a warrior's dark jeu d'esprit, brief, terrible, and celebratory, no more than a momentary, exultant gesture, or game, or festival, of blood and steel, and some, even, that it was merely that he was indeed hungry, and had decided to feed, in his uncouth, boorish manner, and that one event had led to another.

I'm crude and I'm coarse and boorish, and I'm a fat scruffy fifty-three-year-old private detective.

It is revealing of the American culture that its prototypic hero is the cowboy: an uneducated, boorish, Victorian migrant agricultural worker.

One might have thought she was a great lady, and not the insolent, though curvaceous, brat of a boorish sea rover.

One might have thought she was a great lady, and not the insolent, though curvacious, brat of a boorish sea rover.

But neither his environment, a gloomy apartment tastelessly furnished in bourgeois style, nor his outward appearance, a bony, half jovial, half cautiously cunning, more or less boorish face upon a heavy unwieldy body, was adapted to strengthen my illusion.