Word: boorish
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...from his mother and from his teaching job at New York University, and above all gave him the sort of encouragement he needed to produce Look Homeward, Angel. Wolfe was an oppressive lover. He was sickly jealous, perhaps fearful that he might be counter-cuckolded by Bernstein, and so boorish that he constantly called her "my Jew" and made such entries in his diary as "Met Jew at 11:00." When he eventually cut himself off from her because he thought that the affair was stifling his career, she wrote him letters signed in her own blood and even attempted...
...dons quietly strips the seeming culprit of his rank as a university fellow. Hush-hush becomes buzz-buzz as the ex-fellow, Donald Howard, insists that his renowned old scientific mentor, now dead, framed him. To compound this apparent caddishness, Howard is also a fellow traveler and a boorish personality. His only ally is the conscience of a few of his colleagues who fear justice has miscarried...
...everything is interesting for a while, just as the first dirty joke of the evening is engaging. But after a few hours, the range of vulgarity has been covered, and anything following becomes somewhat sickening, somewhat boorish...
Untoward indeed would be the incidents resulting from the Coop's becoming a cut-rate liquor store. The dangers inherent in making large quantities of intoxicating beverages available to the masses is quite as obvious as the inadvisability of serving firewater to Indians. Uncouth and boorish fellows are partially restrained by the high prices set by the international liquor cartel and the tax policy of the Federal government. Anything done to disturb this delicate balance would unleash nightmares of drunkeness and debauchery such as are seldom seen, even in Cambridge...
...would protect himself, as he had always done when Radcliffe freshmen, wild with prep school passion, stormed his sports car to win his favor. Ever haughty, ever proud, Vag had constructed a wall between the world and himself. All that was inane, boorish, and crude was forever shut off from...