adjective
- Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.
- usage: "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
- synonyms: boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, swinish
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