Translation for 'boorish' from English to Croatian

boorish

neotesan {adj}

• In the legal profession, a "Rambo lawyer" is one who habitually engages in "all manners of adversarial excess, including personal attacks on other lawyers, hostility, boorish and insulting behavior, rudeness and obstructionist conduct" or embraces "a 'take no prisoners' attitude".
• Giorgio, having arrived in search of his son, witnesses the scene and castigates Alfredo for his boorish behavior.
• The novel concerns a writer who witnesses an alien invasion of Earth by boorish little green men from Mars.
• Despite her initial misgivings about the boorish Shane, she eventually gives in to the troublemaker's roguish charms.
• In James Joyce's novel "Ulysses", set in 1904, The Citizen, a boorish nationalist partly modelled on Michael Cusack, shouts "Sinn Féin!

• James II's biographer describes him as an astute diplomat, with an ability to convey information through subtle hints, but he was personally a rather unattractive individual, being heavy, gross and boorish.
• Algis Budrys, reviewing "Trader to the Stars", described van Rijn as "the boorish slob who makes unblushing use of his naked power, wallows in the sensual luxuries attendant on his commercial success and thus makes a splendid pulp hero".
• Within a decade, she has turned into a boorish 'Iron Lady' whom everyone fears.
• While usually giving his imprimatur to local customs, in the case of the custom to donate firecrackers and fireworks to the synagogue in honour of Simchat Torah, Rabbi Gombiner believed it proof of the effect of allowing boorish commoners to celebrate a scholars' holiday.
• The term "lad culture" continues to be used today to refer to collective, boorish or misogynistic behaviour by young heterosexual men, particularly university students.

• One critic has described Bukowski's fiction as a "detailed depiction of a certain taboo male fantasy: the uninhibited bachelor, slobby, anti-social, and utterly free", an image he tried to live up to with sometimes riotous public poetry readings and boorish party behavior.
• After a young woman belonging to a Bohemian group of artists is poisoned by the death cap mushroom, the domineering and boorish Stubbs sets out to solve the case despite the objects of Chief Inspector Bishop of Scotland Yard.
• Saunders had a very jaundiced view of the Lutheran Church and the German people (at least those who came to South Australia and settled in places such as Hahndorf and Klemzig, South Australia), finding them boorish and insular.
• The author incorporates an overt message in support of Yugoslav union by having his protagonist sympathize with Slovenian culture and come to hate the boorish occupiers in Austrian-occupied Bosnia.
• In "Nea Nae", the eponymous protagonist is a boorish and thick potentate, always on the hunt for "beastly erotic pleasures" (Călinescu), sometimes accompanied by thinly disguised political figures of the interwar.

• The pair gang up and virtually take the town over with their boorish and aggressive ways including humiliating Mahalakshmi (Saranya), at any given opportunity.
• The agnomen (actually more likely an extra cognomen) "Rullus" appears to mean "uncultivated, boorish" or "beggar".
• Despite doing some piece work for rich, boorish neighbours Mark and Wizzy Rankin, the Boverys are soon considerably in debt.
• The lawyer Geoffrey Robertson wrote: "The Broadcasting Standards Council condemned the makers of "After Dark" for not blacking out Oliver Reed's crude and boorish behaviour...when this behaviour was actually proving the point in a discussion of 'men and violence [...].