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boorish

(adj): ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
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4 months ago bilby said:

"'In my obituary,' he said to the two silent backs, 'they will write that he contributed two hundred million in taxes for the common good, and that he gave Denmark more free international publicity than Niels Bohr and a million pallets of bacon ever did. Nonetheless, the men who accompanied him - when he was taken away to torture and execution - were as boorish as hip-hop gangsters. And as unshaven as Indian swamis.'"
- 'The Quiet Girl', Peter Høeg.

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