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  • 31churlishness — churlish ► ADJECTIVE ▪ rude, mean spirited, and surly. DERIVATIVES churlishly adverb churlishness noun …

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  • 32boorish — adjective Date: 1562 resembling or befitting a boor (as in crude insensitivity) • boorishly adverb • boorishness noun Synonyms: boorish, churlish, loutish, clownish mean uncouth in manners or appearance. boorish …

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  • 33refuse — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ domestic, household (both esp. BrE) ▪ human … OF REFUSE ▪ heap, pile VERB + REFUSE …

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  • 34boorish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. ill mannered, vulgar, rude; rustic, clownish. See vulgarity, discourtesy. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. ill mannered, clumsy, churlish, insensitive; see rude 1 , 2 . See Synonym Study at rude . III… …

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  • 35boor — boor, churl, lout, clown, clodhopper, bumpkin, hick, yokel, rube are comparable when meaning an uncouth, ungainly fellow. Most of these words may be applied to rustics, but they tend increasingly to imply reference to breeding, manners, and… …

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  • 36The Marriage of Sir Gawain — is an English Arthurian ballad, collected as Child Ballad 31.[1] Found in the Percy Folio, it is a fragmented account of the story of Sir Gawain and the loathly lady, which has been preserved in fuller form in the medieval poem The Wedding of Sir …

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  • 37coarse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. rough, harsh textured, coarse grained; uncouth, rude, crude, crass, vulgar, gross, unrefined; broad, bawdy, ribald. See roughness, discourtesy, impurity, texture. Ant., smooth, delicate, refined. II …

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  • 38crude — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. rough, raw, unfinished, imperfect, plain, unwrought, unrefined, incomplete; unprepared, sketchy; coarse, crass, rude, tasteless, gross, immature, vulgar, uncouth. See inelegance, imperfection,… …

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  • 39rude — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. barbarous, crude, primitive, rough, rustic; harsh, rugged; coarse, uncouth; discourteous, uncivil, insolent. See vulgarity, courtesy, inelegance, formlessness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Boorish]… …

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  • 40Discourtesy — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Discourtesy >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 discourtesy discourtesy Sgm: N 1 ill breeding ill breeding Sgm: N 1 ill manners ill manners bad manners ungainly manners Sgm: N 1 insuavity insuavity Sgm: N 1 uncourteousness …

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