He felt an impulse to go up to her-now that she had stopped dancing-and congratulate her honestly, instead of boorishly as he had done at the match, and to say, unreservedly, that she was the better shot-indeed, one of the best he had ever seen.
"Nan of Music Mountain"
Frank H. Spearman
He told himself that he had behaved very boorishly in his abrupt departure from Arles.
"Swirling Waters"
Max Rittenberg
But, look you, no roughness or violence; our husbands always behaved so boorishly.
"The Eleven Comedies"
Aristophanes et al