boorish
/ˈbɔːrɪʃ
/ /ˈbʊərɪʃ /adjective
Rough and bad-mannered; coarse: boorish behaviour...
- So you will appreciate I have a right and a duty to speak out when I witness boorish and loutish behaviour on the streets of Sligo, from whatever quarter it comes.
- He's been given a priceless chance to put a positive spin on the events of his life, but still manages to come off as boorish, sexist and vulgar.
- It's possible to view a pirate as boorish and crass or as vivacious and life-loving.
Synonyms
coarse, uncouth, rude, discourteous, impolite, ungentlemanly, unladylike, ill-bred, ill-mannered, churlish, gruff, uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unsophisticated, unrefined, common, rough, thuggish, loutish;
crude, vulgar, crass, tasteless, unsavoury, gross, lumpen, brutish, bearish, barbaric, barbarous, Neanderthal, philistine
informal clodhopping, cloddish, slobbish, plebby
British informal yobbish
Australian/New Zealand informal ocker
Derivatives
boorishly
/ /ˈbʊərɪʃli / adverb ...- The 73-year old former street-brawler now comes across as more of a genial, boorishly humorous gameshow host.
- He yawned boorishly and stretched his arms above his head of crimson spiky hair, leaning backwards for some emphasis of his boredom.
- For my grandfather, cops-much like baseball players and army veterans-acted as if their uniform gave them a license to behave boorishly.
boorishness
/ /ˈbʊərɪʃnəs / noun ...- He swung from laying on the charm to cold-eyed boorishness and rudeness with alarming alacrity.
- But I look around me and I see too much introverted, narrow-minded, self-congratulating boorishness.
- For years they smirked at the boorishness of patriotism, until it occurred to them: Why scoff when you can hijack?