(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?
Clownish
Definition:
(a.) Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward.
Example Sentences:
(1) Karadzic and Vojislav Seselj , an extreme Serbian nationalist and former paramilitary leader, are currently performing to the same clownish script.
(2) It really astonished me.” Donald Trump: I get along great with Mexico but China should watch out Read more On a superficial level, says Bisley, Beijing would be ecstatic at the emergence of a “buffoonish, clownish, evil boss” who captures the “chaos of democracy” so well.
(3) Cigarettes, soap, shoe polish, Uncle Ben's rice and "Cream of Wheat" cereal used clownish black characters and "black" grammar in their advertising.
(4) These might include, say, red leather trousers, bow ties, Lycra, bomber jackets, leopard-print, cartoon sailor collars, white tights, military frogging, deckchair stripes, blazers, bikinis, giant checks and more of the massive, clownishly shouldered jackets that Diana would accessorise – often to 1980s acclaim – with panto tricorns, pillboxes the size of cake tins.
(5) He doesn’t publicly criticise Griff for giving paranoid lectures about the Illuminati, just like he didn’t knock Flav for becoming a clownish reality TV star.
(6) Bush disseminated a new web video on Saturday entitled Judgement [sic], which uses a whimsical clarinet soundtrack and interview lowlights to portray Trump as a clownish figure not suited to the grave responsibilities of the presidency.
(7) Stuart Campbell Hightae, Dumfriesshire • Neal Ascherson ( Letters , 25 February) says that José Manuel Barroso's "clownish blurt seems to have no support from embarrassed European commission colleagues".
(8) While many have portrayed him as a clownish and eccentric figure – an image no doubt reinforced by his characterisation in Team America: World Police – others say he is smart and even witty.
(9) He was the reserve keeper, the relic of the past, the clownish figure so often blamed for Ivorian failure.
(10) An optimistic interpretation is that Kim, giving the lie to his clownish, bon-viveur image, is actually being rather Machiavellian by setting the stage for a new opening to the west.
(11) If you have a job, most likely you'll have been at work; if you don't, just admitting to have seen Lord Freud and his serpentine, clownish position-taking would probably be grounds enough to get you sanctioned.
(12) For all that, Luhrmann's clownish progress has carried him far.
(13) Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a clownish racist whose Liberal Democratic Party's policies are as far from liberalism or democracy as they can get, proposed "cleaning" the Russian language of supposedly unnecessary borrowings last year – mentioning words such as singl , butik and performans – though it didn't get much traction then.
(14) Behind the clownish posturing lies one ugly fact: since 1992, when these negotiations were conceived, global greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels have risen by half.
(15) His appeal is clownish: fine for a fun job like City Hall, but a liability for anyone aspiring to lead the country, in charge of the military and the NHS.
(16) As for Jose Manuel Barroso's claim that Scotland might be barred from EU membership, which Martin Kettle calls "an important warning", this clownish blurt seems to have no support from embarrassed European commission colleagues.
(17) One piece I watch in the packed theatre is based on a classic piece of north Indian folk theatre, poking fun at a clownish British redcoat who attempts to have his wicked way with a local girl.