Qualities

Synonyms for boorish

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampQualities

ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance

Was boorish and insensitive.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

neanderthal

Same sentence, swapped: Was neanderthal and insensitive.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for boorish as it is used in the sentence above.

cumbersome
lumbering
bungling

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