boor
a rough, bad-mannered, and unpleasant person who is insensitive to social conventions
Word origin: From Dutch boer, peasant or farmer.
Boor in a sentence
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The boor at the dinner table offended every guest with his crude remarks.
Only a boor would interrupt the eulogy to complain that the service was running long.
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Using “boor” well
A boor is a person whose manners are coarse and insensitive. Do not confuse it with the homophone bore, someone tedious rather than rude.
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