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Meanings of boorish in anglès
Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.
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Examples for "neanderthal"
Examples for "neanderthal"
1
He may play neanderthal he-men in movies like XXX and The Fast and the Furious.
2
Some in Spain agreed while others saw that as indicative of England's neanderthal approach to football.
3
A neanderthal A blue whale A headless ex-member of the French royal family You got… Dreadful.
4
Neither a Methodist nor a Neanderthal, to the best of my knowledge.
5
It is next to impossible that the Neanderthal evolved directly into us.
1
The young men who composed it were without exception vulgar and loutish.
2
A loutish-looking young man brought up the rear with the third donkey.
3
Only after I was struck myself by a very large loutish bully.
4
Threatened and hectored in his own house by a loutish, daubing plough-boy!
5
That he succeeded was the appropriate riposte to such mean-spirited and loutish behaviour.
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And yet here they could carouse, and lose themselves in swinish indulgence!
2
I, however, say unto you: To the swine all things become swinish!
3
She could love him, polluted and swinish in the low sinks of womankind.
4
Tribes that have swinish traits were destroyers there and will be destroyers here.
5
But there was nothing swinish about Mrs. Clifford of Budleigh Salterton.
1
One effort made fun of George W. Bush as a swaggering, oafish Texan.
2
The striker's first touch was oafish, allowing Sorensen to surge out to smother.
3
Didn't he have enough self-control just to ignore Symes and his oafish insults?
4
These oafish bots are easy pickings for automated culling services like TwitBlock or Safego.
5
I felt oafish and awkward, as Jan Lubber Fiend might have done before the King.
1
Were neandertal and modern human cranial differences produced by natural selection or genetic drift?
2
This suggests that Neandertals went extinct without contributing mtDNA to modern humans.
3
Others, however, were troubled that the Neandertal and modern features weren't more blended.
4
Many people refused to accept that the Neandertal bones were ancient at all.
5
DNA was extracted from the Neandertal-type specimen found in 1856 in western Germany.
Usage of boorish in anglès
1
He was a craftsman and an artist, lost in this boorish place.
2
Bonnie bristled at what she considered a boorish display of male insolence.
3
Behaviour that had become boorish, is now the template for all teams.
4
One said something to the other, and both laughed with boorish malice.
5
Finally she opened her eyes to remind herself of the boorish truth.
6
She railed at boorish squires for understanding their real interests so imperfectly.
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I hated to appear boorish, besides it would not serve my purpose.
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I could wish that your patron had employed a less boorish messenger.
9
He overpaid the sleigh-driver and laughed aloud at the man's boorish surprise.
10
For all his boorish ways, he was an excellent man at heart.
11
Whether these are atheistic, immoral, boorish, cruel, are considerations of secondary importance.
12
The boorish manners of the father offended the finer spirit of the son.
13
They have become boorish in manners, unsympathetic in nature, and suspicious in spirit.
14
Tiririca believes such boorish behavior is the rule in legislatures, not the exception.
15
The image they constantly project is of boorish, dogmatic, ungracious, and insulting mien.
16
Teniers, Ostade, Brouwer are coarse and boorish beside him; Metsu and Mieris genteel.
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