A person who talks with his or her mouth full is a real boor. From LearnThat.org.
Though he is a boor, that is to be expected, as his father is an enlisted man. From Wordnik.com. [I Met John Scalvi! « Whatever] Reference
A man may possess vast learning and yet be a boor. From Wordnik.com. [No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes] Reference
"I've been behaving like a boor, haven't I?" he admitted. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
He was laughed at in the cities as a boor and condemned in. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
If not, they're going to edit you to look like an uncooperative boor. From Wordnik.com. [‘I Got Paid a Lot’] Reference
I cast thee down, O Tartarean boor, ... into the infernal kitchen!. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Did they parley with cunning lawyers, cajole the boor, act the valorous on. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
I'm a great, rough boor of a lad, Win, and you're such a dainty, fairy creature. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life] Reference
But the new owner of the island was even more of a boor than we had anticipated. From Wordnik.com. [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference
Some one under the walls laughed -- the hearty, raucous laugh of the care-free boor. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Lord Robert was, as his cousin Mary had truly described him, little better than a boor. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
To me she was wholly cultured and I some strange boor who had never been in a drawing room. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
One may, it is true, have all the antecedents I have spoken of, and yet be a boor or a shabby fellow. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
If I insist upon that right I feel myself a boor, lacking the sense and sensibilities of a gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
Should he neglect to announce himself in this way he is considered as ill-bred -- an unmannerly boor. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I.] Reference
Why should not a gentleman, "-- this he said sarcastically --" occupy the workhouse as well as a boor. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
He must find her, become her friend, perhaps ---- But, again he laughed to himself, "What a boor I am!". From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
"Never! never! we would never permit ourselves to be seen in such company, you rough-looking boor, you.". From Wordnik.com. [Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist Dudie Dunne Again in the Field] Reference
The younger man's chivalry was up in arms, and he felt that such a boor did not deserve so bright a jewel. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
Sturdy black and hairy scamps the Irish -- never German boor so inelegant -- but venomous in their courage!. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
He would be an ill-mannered boor who should not feel impelled to say a word to the dauntless Signor Evelina. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
Signor Odoardo, who is not an ill - mannered boor, yields to the temptation of opening the window for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian] Reference
The sage alone had the freedom of this city and the fool was therefore not only a boor, but an alien or an exile. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
Leaning over the table with his eyes set and his fist clenched he shouted at me, "I am a boor and the son of a boor". '. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
His anger, this confrontation, the whole scene, all of it surprises me almost as much as my disappointment that this — boor?. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift] Reference
During the same Consuls, a bloody assassination was perpetrated in the nethermost Spain, by a boor in the territory of Termes. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
Yet after a few days, I shall neither indite any verses, nor write any compositions, as I am simply a rustic boor, nothing more!. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Another appellation which the Stoics had for the sage was 'the urbane man', while the fool in contradistinction was called 'a boor '. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
"My oxen! my poor oxen!" cried the boor, and then he related all that had happened to him, entreating them to go with him to the place. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
Britain trusted with the important task of watching him and sizing him up counted him as a boor as well as a Boer -- a mere country clod. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference
It was considered bad form, and the luckless boaster of "how poor he was" would have been properly stared at as a boor as well as a bore. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War] Reference
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