boorishnessn.

1570 in G. Tolstoy First Forty Years Intercourse Eng. & Russia (1875) 112 All his talke was of bowrishnes and affaires of marchaunts.

1674 Defensio Legis iii. 3 The Boorishness of others.

1692 M. Smith Art of Painting xxxi. 86 In Designs of Great and Honourable Actions, we must avoid the bringing in any thing that savours of Rusticity, or Boorishness, but maintain the Character throughout the work.

1700 G. Farquhar Constant Couple iii. 32 Two of them had a heavy, pedantick, University Air, a sort of disagreeable scholastick Boorishness in their Behaviour.

1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams III. vii. 116 The boorishness of his rank in society.

1863 J. G. Holland Lett. to Joneses xiii. 197 The unwhipped coward rubs his hands over his clever boorishness and brutality.

1866 Sat. Rev. 13 Jan. 37/1 The curious mixture of feudal arrogance and clumsy boorishness..surviving among Prussian aristocrats.

1904 H. Adams Mont-Saint-Michel & Chartres ix. 205 The men of the baser sort revenged themselves by boorishness that passed for wit in the taverns.

1969 J. Singer tr. I. B. Singer Estate i. v. 62 I still shudder when I think of how much dirt and boorishness I encountered aboard ship.

2011 Times 3 Oct. 2/3 Boorishness among rugby players is nothing new.