(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?
Loutish
Definition:
(a.) Clownish; rude; awkward.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simon Rush, president of the GMB union’s professional drivers branch, said: “Whatever the reason for this loutish verbal attack on a working person by this politician, it is unacceptable behaviour, not only on the road but in any workplace.
(2) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
(3) "We had these huge, ill-mannered, loutish interruptions, upper-middle-class people who should have known better," he recalled.
(4) Promising an immediate inquiry, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, condemned what he called "thuggish, loutish behaviour by criminals" and conceded his officers had failed to plan for violence.
(5) Not so, now, for the LSE has been the unfortunate venue for the latest in a long line of recent “lad culture” scandals that have seen many a male student reprimanded for sexist, loutish behaviour.
(6) Loutish Tory MPs once heckled the former ship's steward John Prescott with shouts of "Large gin and tonic".
(7) Then Sandler boarded the Jennifer Aniston merry-go-round of filmic failure in Just Go With It, wherein he proved himself no better at squiring La Jenn than his loutish predecessor Gerard Butler.
(8) Culture is nowhere to be found, except with disgraced alcoholic Doc Tyden (Donald Pleasence), who talks of Socrates as loutish men punch each other in rear of shot.
(9) There are no Fantas or Magnums on ice, no sellers of souvenirs, no racks of postcards, no loutish boomboxes, no plastic rubbish, no deckchairs for rent, no jet-skis to annoy me, no windsurfing lessons not to take.
(10) The Drudge Report, a powerful news aggregator popular with conservatives, linked to the Yucatan Times article with some commenters hailed the tourists for avenging alleged Mexican loutishness in the US.
(11) Yes, he was loutish in what he said and is not fit to be a parliamentary candidate, but I don’t think there was anything malicious or evil about what he was trying to do,” he said.
(12) Revelling in loutish displays, he brandished a pistol in the Serbian parliament, threatening to shoot a political opponent.