(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?
Smart
Definition:
(v. i.) To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.
(v. i.) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
(v. t.) To cause a smart in.
(v. i.) Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
(v. i.) Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
(v. i.) A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.
(v. i.) Smart money (see below).
(v. i.) Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
(v. i.) Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
(v. i.) Vigorous; sharp; severe.
(v. i.) Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.
(v. i.) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
(v. i.) Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
(v. i.) Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
(v. i.) Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
(2) Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes.
(3) "He's defined by being himself, by being smart, by being a good athlete," Goldwater said of Keller.
(4) Advancing the health and rights of women is the right – and smart – thing to do for any nation hoping to remain or emerge as a leader on the global stage.
(5) By way of encouragement we've got 10 copies of Faber's smart new anniversary edition to give away.
(6) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
(7) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
(8) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
(9) I buy ‘smart price’, own-brand cornflakes, rather than Kellogg’s, and I still get to the checkout and think, ‘That’s come to a lot again.’” Are you Daniel Blake?
(10) If you're sincere and smart and genuine and lovable that's what's going to come across in your videos and tweets."
(11) In a statement, Fisher Price said: “We recently learned of a security vulnerability with our Fisher-Price WiFi-connected Smart Toy Bear.
(12) Can consoles still survive in a rapidly changing business where smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, and now Steam Machines, are threatening?
(13) Snapchat is also thinking about new devices, launching a Snapchat Micro app for Samsung's Galaxy Gear smart watch in September, capable of shooting pics and videos with the device's camera, then sharing them.
(14) There were signs of encouragement early in the second half from Sunderland, and they should have pulled one back only for a terrible call from the assistant referee Eddie Smart.
(15) In Drosophila melanogaster new tester strains for the somatic mutation and recombination test (SMART) in the wing were constructed with the aim of increasing the metabolic capacity to activate promutagens.
(16) And there are plenty who think that, as our libel laws are cleaned up, smart lawyers are switching horses to privacy.
(17) I think the heart of good comedy really lives in truth and reacting to the absurdities, hypocrisies, abuses of power in the world.” Late night television is a no longer a glass of warm milk before bed, it’s a lunch buffet And as TV viewership declines and internet virality becomes as important as real-time eyeballs, cable networks might find that topical comedy is a smart, cost-effective way to grab cross-platform attention.
(18) With cities moving markets, joint procurement standards generate great potential for economies of scale, from buses to smart street lighting.
(19) A smart city would use IT to manage traffic so air stays fit to breathe.
(20) Pitched as a "smart" calendar, it's easy to create appointments and events, and ties in neatly with the developer's separate Any.do to-do lists app.