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usually uncountable, plural boorishnesses
The state or characteristic of being a boor or of being boorish; boorish behaviour. quotations examples
No refinement in him would now have surprised her; but neither would any outbreak of boorishness.
1888, George Gissing, chapter 8, in A Life's Morning
From the first the Russian had exhibited every trait of his true character—selfishness, boorishness, arrogance, cowardice, and lust.
1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 21, in The Return of Tarzan
Unfortunately, there were moments of pure indulgence, drunken boorishness and rambling unintelligible poetry midway through the evening.
2009 July 31, “Nevermore With Jeffrey Combs As Edger Allan Poe Taps Every Emotion”, in Beverly Hills Courier, retrieved 17 Aug. 2009