And don’t forget the fall elections nothing buoys public approval ratings, distracts the booboisie from a moribund economy, and puts steam in my slacks like a little carpet-bombing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: October 6, 2002 - October 12, 2002 Archives] Reference

The "booboisie," as Mencken often called them, have always been with us.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE SCOPES TRIAL AND TODAY'S EVOLUTION BATTLES] Reference

(Wood had read H.L. Mencken's debunking of the American "booboisie" and, for a time, agreed with it.).    From Wordnik.com.  [American Idol] Reference

Only the terminally disinterested, which is to say a vast swath of the "booboisie", march lock step to the mainstream medias pied pipers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walter Cronkite: ‘We Are Mired in Stalemate,’ 1968 « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference

Notes On Democracy, and its caustic account of allowing America's "booboisie" total reign.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

Just leave the booboisie -- if that's what you want to call them -- alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art and Culture] Reference

He is typical of the non-thinking booboisie that is the white-wing these days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 1, 2010] Reference

“Cross of gold,” “booboisie ‚” “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion” and allthat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » One Thing We Know About Elena Kagan’s Views on Particular Free Speech Cases] Reference

“Cross of gold,” “booboisie ‚” “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion” and all that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » One Thing We Know About Elena Kagan’s Views on Particular Free Speech Cases] Reference

At least, I am spared the fulminations and the rantings of the aging white male booboisie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » James Dobson to start new nonprofit and radio show, giving him ‘greater leeway to hold forth on politics.’] Reference

He had a haywire brain, and to talk about "motivation" was and is a booboisie entertainment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Agin: Tucson, Guns, Madness: Our Media Problem With Mental Illness] Reference

It has always been a regional fight, pitting the Southern-and-heartland booboisie against the city slickers.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's 'Libertine' Jesse Ventura Vs. the G.O.P. Culture Jihad] Reference

I know you will not dare to publish this, fearing to offend what H.L. Mencken called the 'great booboisie' of readers.    From Wordnik.com.  [<i>Atlantic</i> Redesign Praised By Magazine Veteran] Reference

I know you will not dare to publish this, fearing to offend what H.L. Mencken called the “great booboisie” of readers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Editor] Reference

And the rest of the review more or less backs it up although the “booboisie” line was over the top, but did we really need those first three paragraphs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Understanding the General Audience : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference

For too long we've been subjected to the whims of the booboisie and its corrupt representations, determined to build a world reflecting their boneheaded and backward-marching theories on life and liberty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steven Weber: The High Calling of a Low Brow] Reference

Mencken comically expressed the dissatisfaction of intellectuals with the philistinism and comical bourgeois provinciality of the “booboisie” American in the years of prosperity that followed the First World War.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Verbal Swagger] Reference

The booboisie is composed of idiots and mental children.    From Wordnik.com.  [3quarksdaily] Reference

Surveying the teeming hordes of American citizens, Mencken called them the "booboisie.".    From Wordnik.com.  [3quarksdaily] Reference

Elections were to become mere charades conducted for the bedazzlement of the booboisie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Corner on National Review Online] Reference

I would say, in fact, that probably 50\% of the great booboisie now uses that pron. for luxury and exit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

OK, I'm not about to repeat the hackneyed liberal charge that we are a nation of unthinking dolts, or H.L. Mencken's famous dictum about "the booboisie.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

With all the dyspeptic glee of a Mencken at play in the fields of the booboisie he ridiculed its institutions, its leadership, its pretensions, its culture, and its spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Its gushers of wealth were said to be strangling intellectual life in an America as the booboisie, in their catch-penny wisdom, had chosen men like Harding and Coolidge to be president.    From Wordnik.com.  [TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog] Reference

If you want an over-hyped empty spectacle devoid of meaning -- the sort of syncopated ritual that H.L. Mencken would have denounced as fit for the booboisie -- try a national political convention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics Daily] Reference

Humbert is like the world’s meanest, funniest sociologist, casting a cold, judgmental eye toward the American booboisie in their natural habitat.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Year of Flops] Reference

"It is difficult to see," H.L. Mencken wrote, "how even the lowliest member of the booboisie will say 'hello' for 'good-bye' now that he is expected to do so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opposite Day: An Opposing View] Reference

Belief is okay, in the general sense, but when it gets specific his characters turn into the sort of thin-lipped God-bothering tongue-talking booboisie you saw in the courthouse spectator’s pews in “Inherit the Wind.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monday, Sept. 29 – The Bleat.] Reference

Well, I’m going to live out a personal fantasy for a moment and pretend that it’s still the Golden Age of Critics: Mencken, Parker, Woollcott, Wilson — witty gatekeepers of culture who said what they thought without fear of the backlash of the booboisie or the demagogy of the Internet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Understanding the General Audience : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference

The booboisie is rattled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Agin: Tucson, Guns, Madness: Our Media Problem With Mental Illness] Reference

And -- the booboisie, he called them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society] Reference

The booboisie.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Was and is a booboisie entertainment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

We are the "primitive strain," the "booboisie," or, as The New York Times put it, the "Philistines.".    From Wordnik.com.  [American Thinker] Reference