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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "boorishness" in a sentence

    boorishness example sentences

    boorishness


    1. We had never been close friends but my boorishness was unforgivable


    2. planned to apologize for Rich’s boorishness, swear that at least he wasn’t a


    3. The old prince used to approve of them for their endurance at work when they came to Bald Hills to help with the harvest or to dig ponds, and ditches, but he disliked them for their boorishness


    4. Prince Andrew’s last stay at 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


    5. ‘My mistress, daughter of General in Chief Prince Nicholas Bolkonski who died on the fifteenth of this month, finding herself in difficulties owing to the boorishness of these people’- he pointed to the peasants- ‘asks you to come up to the house


    6. Prince Andrew’s last stay at Boguchárovo, 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


    7. “My mistress, daughter of General in Chief Prince Nicholas Bolkónski who died on the fifteenth of this month, finding herself in difficulties owing to the boorishness of these people”—he pointed to the peasants—“asks you to come up to the house


    8. She spoke, as he did, with contempt of the public, of its indifference to art, of its boorishness


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    Synonyms for "boorishness"

    boorishness uncouthness crudeness rudeness vulgarity cruelty

    "boorishness" definitions

    the manner of a rude or insensitive person


    inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor