1 These, after exhausting other modes of amusement, now thronged about Hester Prynne with rude and boorish intrusiveness.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXII. THE PROCESSION 2 We became particularly hot upon some boorish sneer of Drummle's, to the effect that we were too free with our money.
3 I was almost on the point of forgiving you for your former boorish conduct but now I shan't do it.
4 Now, quiet your ruffled feathers and overlook my boorish remarks about the proud and honorable Ashley.
5 The letters of the name of Dublin lay heavily upon his mind, pushing one another surlily hither and thither with slow boorish insistence.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 6 Honesty and courtesy in business are preferable to boorishness and exposed trickery, but this is not to be taken personally, since all persons in Gopher Prairie are known to be honest and courteous.