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Definition of "boorishness" [boorishness]

  • The state or characteristic of being a boor or of being boorish; boorish behaviour. (noun)

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Use "boorishness" in a sentence
  • "Can't do much about the last -- boorishness is not illegal -- but plenty about the first two."
  • ""The people were different, but their boorishness was the same," he said in an interview published Thursday in the daily newspaper Izvestia."
  • "(For Khamstvo the dictionary suggests "boorishness" as a translation, but that seems too mild to my Russian sense of this word.)"