How to Use boor in a Sentence

boor

noun

• I can't invite a boor like him to dinner! He'd offend the other guests.
• We’d be laughed at and called ignorant boors!
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2026
• The men in these women’s lives are, thankfully, neither boors nor cads.
  — Elizabeth Kerr, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2017
• Johnson was regarded as a boor and an amateur, and, on the left, a war criminal.
  — Conrad Black, National Review, 31 Jan. 2018
• There were plenty of blowhards, bigots and boors, not to mention people who really shouldn’t be wearing madras.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 3 July 2014
• Her husband, however, is a boor on the level of Juicy Joe Giudice.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2021
• So in addition to being indiscreet and uncouth, this boor also lacks physical grace.
  — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
• This may be true to the directness of the tech world, but presenting Kalanick so straightforwardly as a boor means that there’s nowhere for this story to take us.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 22 Feb. 2022
• LeBron may very well be an insufferable boor and Kyrie is feeling disgusted by the fact that James is such a glory hog.
  — cleveland.com, 22 July 2017
• Happily, Hytner is no boor either, even without these obvious avenues of approach.
  — Peter Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2017
• Many of the conservative women who once saw him as a boor have come to believe that for too long they were focused on the wrong qualities in presidential candidates.
  — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2019
• What Stevens does, in other words, is refine the basic Beastly idea—the boor whose heart is gentle—with a glumly sophisticated wit.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
• Now that boor is a celebrity judge in the Funniest Person in Austin contest Dana hoped might be her ticket to a second chance at the big time.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019
• Grant had often been depicted in either laudatory or disdainful terms — as a brilliant military tactician or as a drunken boor who was a failure at everything except war.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• This story of bumbling boors, chiseling social climbers, and simpering fops gallivanting and scheming around the London countryside is crisply performed by a uniformly excellent cast.
  — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 10 July 2017