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Noun

boorishness ‎(usually uncountable, plural boorishnesses)

1. The state or characteristic of being a boor or of being boorish; boorish behaviour.
   • 1888, George Gissing, A Life's Morning, ch. 8:

     No refinement in him would now have surprised her; but neither would any outbreak of boorishness.

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, ch. 21:

     From the first the Russian had exhibited every trait of his true character—selfishness, boorishness, arrogance, cowardice, and lust.

   • 2009, "Nevermore With Jeffrey Combs As Edger Allan Poe Taps Every Emotion," Beverly Hills Courier, 31 July (retrieved 17 Aug. 2009):

     Unfortunately, there were moments of pure indulgence, drunken boorishness and rambling unintelligible poetry midway through the evening.

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