How to Use boor in a Sentence
boor
noun
- I can't invite a boor like him to dinner! He'd offend the other guests.
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The men in these women’s lives are, thankfully, neither boors nor cads.
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Elizabeth Kerr,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Oct. 2017
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Don’t belabor your point No one likes a boor or an obsessive, so don’t be one.
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Dwight Silverman,
San Antonio Express-News,
3 July 2018
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Her husband, however, is a boor on the level of Juicy Joe Giudice.
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Shamira Ibrahim,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2021
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Lots of people are now wondering: Who’s next — and what should happen to the men being outed as boors or more?
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Maria Panaritis,
Philly.com,
20 Dec. 2017
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This is unequivocal good news for D.C. Let’s not let the Beltway boors bungle this.
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Jason Gay,
WSJ,
8 June 2018
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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.
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Tom Nolan,
WSJ,
11 Jan. 2019
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Johnson was regarded as a boor and an amateur, and, on the left, a war criminal.
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Conrad Black,
National Review,
31 Jan. 2018
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Chuck Mumpson, an American boor as lumpish as his name.
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Margalit Fox,
New York Times,
3 Dec. 2020
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This 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.
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Daniel D'addario,
Variety,
22 Feb. 2022
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There were plenty of blowhards, bigots and boors, not to mention people who really shouldn’t be wearing madras.
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Alexander Nazaryan,
Newsweek,
3 July 2014
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LeBron may very well be an insufferable boor and Kyrie is feeling disgusted by the fact that James is such a glory hog.
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cleveland.com,
22 July 2017
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How many Americans seem to have forgotten the simplest tool of dealing with witless boors, kooks and bullies: Ignore them.
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Chris Stirewalt,
Fox News,
31 May 2017
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What Stevens does, in other words, is refine the basic Beastly idea—the boor whose heart is gentle—with a glumly sophisticated wit.
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Adam Davidson,
The New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2017
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O’Neill might be a womanizing boor but his devotion to his job—and to thwarting attacks on the U.S.—is unmistakable.
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Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
1 Mar. 2018
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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.
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Jeremy W. Peters,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2019
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So in addition to being indiscreet and uncouth, this boor also lacks physical grace.
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Phil Rosenthal,
chicagotribune.com,
19 June 2018
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In the first segment, the stakes for the conflict are set: Amy is an altruistic 20-something pretty much ready to subsume her life to Dominic, an up-and-coming critic, aspiring filmmaker and budding boor.
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Dominic P. Papatola,
Twin Cities,
22 May 2017
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Many dancers play Hilarion as a gruff boor who is merely a hindrance to the central lovers, but Mr. Zhurbin’s solid sincerity inspires sympathy, and this complicates and deepens the story.
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Brian Seibert,
New York Times,
28 May 2017
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Happily, Hytner is no boor either, even without these obvious avenues of approach.
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Peter Lewis,
The Christian Science Monitor,
8 Dec. 2017
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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.
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Matt Schudel,
Washington Post,
20 Dec. 2019
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This story of bumbling boors, chiseling social climbers, and simpering fops gallivanting and scheming around the London countryside is crisply performed by a uniformly excellent cast.
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Steve Heisler,
Chicago Reader,
10 July 2017
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