I can't invite a boor like him to dinner! He'd offend the other guests. a loudmouthed boor who embarrassed his family at every social event they attended
Recent Examples on the WebThis may be true to the directness of the tech world, but presenting Kalanick so straightforwardly as a boor means that there’s nowhere for this story to take us. Daniel D'addario, Variety, 22 Feb. 2022 Her husband, however, is a boor on the level of Juicy Joe Giudice. Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2021 Chuck Mumpson, an American boor as lumpish as his name. Margalit Fox, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020 They are well matched by McCarthy — played by Lee Sellars as a sort of East-Coast-meets-Texas boor, without a whisper of Wisconsin to him — and his ruthlessly loyal young researcher, Jean Kerr (Cathryn Wake), who will become his wife.New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020 Grant had often been depicted in either laudatory or disdainful terms — as a brilliant military tactician or as a drunken boor who was a failure at everything except war. Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019 Many of the conservative women who once saw him as a boor have come to believe that for too long they were focused on the wrong qualities in presidential candidates. Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2019 Now that boor is a celebrity judge in the Funniest Person in Austin contest Dana hoped might be her ticket to a second chance at the big time. Tom Nolan, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019 This is unequivocal good news for D.C. Let’s not let the Beltway boors bungle this. Jason Gay, WSJ, 8 June 2018 See More
Word History
Etymology
Dutch boer; akin to Old English būan to dwell — more at bower