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Meanings of boorish in English

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.
The Irish Times
2
Some in Spain agreed while others saw that as indicative of England's neanderthal approach to football.
The Guardian
3
A neanderthal A blue whale A headless ex-member of the French royal family You got… Dreadful.
The Guardian
4
Neither a Methodist nor a Neanderthal, to the best of my knowledge.
Water, stone, heart
5
It is next to impossible that the Neanderthal evolved directly into us.
The Science of Battlestar Galactica
1
The young men who composed it were without exception vulgar and loutish.
The Making Of A Novelist / An Experiment In Autobiography
2
A loutish-looking young man brought up the rear with the third donkey.
Robert Falconer
3
Only after I was struck myself by a very large loutish bully.
For the love of mike
4
Threatened and hectored in his own house by a loutish, daubing plough-boy!
Under the Skylights
5
That he succeeded was the appropriate riposte to such mean-spirited and loutish behaviour.
The Irish Times
1
And yet here they could carouse, and lose themselves in swinish indulgence!
My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
2
I, however, say unto you: To the swine all things become swinish!
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
3
She could love him, polluted and swinish in the low sinks of womankind.
Villa Elsa / A Story of German Family Life
4
Tribes that have swinish traits were destroyers there and will be destroyers here.
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ...
5
But there was nothing swinish about Mrs. Clifford of Budleigh Salterton.
He Knew He Was Right
1
One effort made fun of George W. Bush as a swaggering, oafish Texan.
Wired
2
The striker's first touch was oafish, allowing Sorensen to surge out to smother.
The Guardian
3
Didn't he have enough self-control just to ignore Symes and his oafish insults?
Pagan Passions
4
These oafish bots are easy pickings for automated culling services like TwitBlock or Safego.
Wired
5
I felt oafish and awkward, as Jan Lubber Fiend might have done before the King.
The Red Axe
1
Were neandertal and modern human cranial differences produced by natural selection or genetic drift?
Wired
2
This suggests that Neandertals went extinct without contributing mtDNA to modern humans.
Pubmed
3
Others, however, were troubled that the Neandertal and modern features weren't more blended.
A short history of nearly everything
4
Many people refused to accept that the Neandertal bones were ancient at all.
A short history of nearly everything
5
DNA was extracted from the Neandertal-type specimen found in 1856 in western Germany.
Pubmed
Usage of boorish in English
1
He was a craftsman and an artist, lost in this boorish place.
The Cloister and the Hearth
2
Bonnie bristled at what she considered a boorish display of male insolence.
The witch of agnesi
3
Behaviour that had become boorish, is now the template for all teams.
Radio NZ
4
One said something to the other, and both laughed with boorish malice.
The Debtor: A Novel
5
Finally she opened her eyes to remind herself of the boorish truth.
The Hellbound Heart
6
She railed at boorish squires for understanding their real interests so imperfectly.
Two Poets
7
I hated to appear boorish, besides it would not serve my purpose.
The Black Wolf's Breed / A Story of France in the Old World and ...
8
I could wish that your patron had employed a less boorish messenger.
For The Admiral
9
He overpaid the sleigh-driver and laughed aloud at the man's boorish surprise.
Barlasch of the Guard
10
For all his boorish ways, he was an excellent man at heart.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
11
Whether these are atheistic, immoral, boorish, cruel, are considerations of secondary importance.
Villa Elsa / A Story of German Family Life
12
The boorish manners of the father offended the finer spirit of the son.
The Story of Mankind
13
They have become boorish in manners, unsympathetic in nature, and suspicious in spirit.
Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes
14
Tiririca believes such boorish behavior is the rule in legislatures, not the exception.
Reuters
15
The image they constantly project is of boorish, dogmatic, ungracious, and insulting mien.
The Irish Times
16
Teniers, Ostade, Brouwer are coarse and boorish beside him; Metsu and Mieris genteel.
A Wanderer in Holland
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