What's the difference between audacious and boorish?

Audacious


Definition:

  • (a.) Daring; spirited; adventurous.
  • (a.) Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent.
  • (a.) Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The polyvalent and adaptable material which we have developed (sliding splint-staple) and which we also use in thoracic traumatology (thoracic flaps), has allowed us to perform audacious corrections for deformities or wide resections for tumours since 1980.
  • (2) Who else in American politics would be so audacious as to have one spouse accept money from foreign governments and businesses while the other charted American foreign policy?” Schweizer asks.
  • (3) China has penetrated the Foreign Office's internal communications in the most audacious example yet of the growing threat posed by state-sponsored cyber-attacks, it emerged tonight.
  • (4) Reading the extraordinary details in Michael Beloff’s independent ethics commission report and the second part of Dick Pound’s independent commission report, published on Thursday , it is becoming increasingly clear Diack and his two sons, plus his legal counsel Habib Cissé, were running an audacious shadow operation that grasped opportunity where ever it came.
  • (5) Five minutes into the second half the Nigerian attacker produced an audacious flick over the head of Borges before sending a pinpoint cross to Smith, only for the veteran striker to head on to the crossbar.
  • (6) There was still time for Saborio to try an audacious lob from distance to steal the game, but Nielsen, who'd looked ponderous in his movements all game, was able to watch this one safely over.
  • (7) The launch of Sky Atlantic follows the broadcaster's audacious £150m, five-year deal to snap up the exclusive UK TV rights to US cable channel HBO's entire archive, new HBO programming and a first-look deal on all co-productions.
  • (8) An audacious youth leader once tipped as a future president of South Africa has been expelled from the governing African National Congress (ANC).
  • (9) In a recent Facebook post, he called The Putin Interviews “a four-hour audacious climax to my strange life as an American film-maker”.
  • (10) One of the brewery’s two founders, James Watt, pronounced the drink “an audacious blend of eccentricity, artistry and rebellion”.
  • (11) When builders moved in a few weeks ago, it was marked in flamboyant Polish style with a commissioned "dance" for the diggers by director Robert Florczak, whose audacious multimedia Macbeth debuted at last year's Shakespeare festival.
  • (12) Under Rossetto, stories written in the UK had to be vetted to see if they were sufficiently "Wired" - with San Francisco (US Wired's base) even vetoing the attempt to bring in two audacious hires: Douglas Adams as editor and Neville Brody as creative director.
  • (13) The different sketches and 3D renditions of the ten projects make audacious and compelling viewing (see them here ).
  • (14) He breathed new life into a somewhat static side, heading their second equaliser from a corner, almost scoring with a fabulously audacious shot and then creating what seemed to be the winner for Mike Williamson.
  • (15) In his speech on Monday, he makes an audacious raid on Labour territory, claiming the Tories are now the “true party of labour”.
  • (16) He said the organoid was "audacious and the similarities with some of the features of a human brain really quite astounding".
  • (17) (1966), worked with Simpson, Arnold Wesker and John Arden , and, having staged Howard Barker ’s Cheek in 1970, collaborated with him in 1986 on the audacious Women Beware Women, adapting Middleton’s Jacobean original with poisonous puritanism.
  • (18) The Zappa statue was audaciously suggested by local artists in 1992, as a slightly flippant test of their country's newfound democratic freedoms; to their surprise, the authorities called their bluff.
  • (19) Even more audaciously, they then went on to post real-time email exchanges between Gawker staffers that they had hacked into, in which the employees discussed how they were coming under attack.
  • (20) Where did she find the strength for this audacious patricide?

Boorish


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The furore over Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand's prank-gone-wrong brought the debate surrounding boorish comedy to a head, and has shifted the goalposts for broadcast comedy.
  • (2) Monet, Courbet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Millet, that boor Cézanne and the even more boorish Picasso and Marinetti (not to mention our own selves, the local boors)."
  • (3) Even by his shaky standards, Erdoğan’s behaviour during the campaign was exceptionally boorish.
  • (4) It’ll be tempting to go after Trump for his late-night tweets, for the insults he will surely keep firing off – whether at Meryl Streep or the cast of Hamilton – and for the general boorishness that has made him so repellent to so many millions.
  • (5) It is not a fear of machismo or boorishness that troubles me, it is more that a male-only group feels incomplete, unfinished.
  • (6) More blokey and garrulous, less abrasive and boorish, Farage narrowed the focus to Europe and, by doing so, widened the far right’s appeal.
  • (7) High on rhetoric, low on facts, utterly misguided, racially motivated, brazen, boorish, ridiculous and a little bit scary – he would have fitted right in with the Republican majorities.
  • (8) The interview takes place before his curious encounter with Boris Johnson on Newsnight , but just after the great "Mr Idiot" spat , in which Daily Telegraph columnist Peter Oborne insulted a bespectacled EU bureaucrat and Paxman failed to protect the victim, who grew so tired of Oborne's boorishness that he took off his microphone and terminated the discussion.
  • (9) Yet the pairs' love of performance lends them a certain boorishness in the setting.
  • (10) The Russian Orthodox church has called feminist punk band Pussy Riot "sinners", their concerts a "boorish, arrogant and aggressive" challenge to Christians.
  • (11) Among the latter are Judah Friedlander (Roisin Dubh, Fri), best known for his appearances as boorish Frank Rossitano in 30 Rock, and deadpan schmuck Todd Barry (Roisin Dubh, 25 Oct).
  • (12) I hope this starts the process of recovery and that everybody now can just step back and understand that you know these boorish and bullish guys understand the magnitude of what happened."
  • (13) For The Stepford Wives, William Goldman provided a screenplay from the surreal novel by Ira Levin, with Newman as the figure who became the computerised fantasy of boorish men in a small American town.
  • (14) How is it that MPs who think they are the voice of the people always make the people sound so boorish?
  • (15) He said he needed the money to build the wall.” Such bonhomie is a far cry from the perception of America-first boorishness.
  • (16) Indeed, to question out loud how the Conservative party can move from the free market libertarianism of David Cameron to the bunkered protectionism of Theresa May, while the Labour party cannot be permitted a London mayor who dresses a little bit differently to its leader, would be so obvious as to sound almost boorish.
  • (17) Suddenly the languid manner had coarsened into boorishness.
  • (18) The boorish members of the Ale and Quail hunting club run riot through the restaurant car of Preston Sturges's Palm Beach Story.
  • (19) Dave Tollner Northern Territory MP Dave Tollner was accused of being drunk and “boorish” on a flight from Adelaide to Canberra in 2004 by South Australian Labor MP Rod Sawford.
  • (20) Illustration: SCIAMMARELLA Boorish, bling-besotted buffoon, or statesman of Churchillian calibre?