Boorish
Boorish adjective - Having or showing crudely insensitive or impolite manners.
Usage example: boorish behavior, such as yelling for service in restaurants
Courteous
Courteous adjective - Showing consideration, courtesy, and good manners.
Usage example: their customer service department always gives courteous responses, even to rude people
Both words in one sentence
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They are very courteous of this odd foreigner and patient with his rude and boorish behavior... that is, until his dinner guest, a transvestite prostitute, arrives, at which point they kick him out.
Source: Deep South
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