uncouth
IPA: ˈʌnkˈuθ
adjective
- (archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
- Clumsy, awkward.
- Unrefined, crude.
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Examples of "uncouth" in Sentences
- Also, the phrase refers to is uncouth.
- His behavior was sometimes uncouth and violent.
- His behaviour was sometimes uncouth and violent.
- But now that I think of it, it was a bit uncouth.
- How "uncouth", hey? sometimes I even get a hotdog.
- He is the opposite of Dame Edna, uncouth and coarse.
- Build on facts, not some silly argument about who's "uncouth".
- Its habits are too uncouth for it to respond to humane treatment.
- What’s uncouth is that pell-mell deployment of punctuation, Paul.
- Because of this, they tend to have a scruffy, rough and uncouth image.
- The woman was no mensch and the missionaries were uncouth and ill informed.
- They, in turn, regarded the mountain people as poor, uncouth, and ignorant.
- Also it is unclear what, if any, uncouth language was original to the song.
- Well, you said you wanted to appear uncouth, and part of being uncouth is being like a rube, or 'stupid'.
- Infidels must not be allowed to coin uncouth meanings for words, different from the known usage of the English tongue, for which Webster is undeniable authority.
- I am not without regard for the Merriam-Webster dictionary, but my advice to those who do not want to be regarded as anything from uneducated to uncouth is to stick with the unadorned
- And that latter saying is true, though it must be remembered that Hallam wrote in the period when no English was recognized by literary people except that of the upper level, when they did not know that these so-called uncouth phrases were to return to common use.
- Possibly some of us have been doing independent research into the state of health care financing and US policy since the first Bush was in office, and have been able to draw our own conclusions about Moore's information not based on his appearance or "uncouth" behavior?
- Poland; as a principle, we hated Napoleon, though he had neither act nor part in the doings of the democrats; and the sea-songs of Dibdin, which our youth _now_ would call uncouth and ungraceful rhymes, were key-notes to public feeling; the English of that time were thoroughly
- He, being every day alarmed at the prospect of a successor, addressed himself to the task of conciliating Valens, who was of a rustic and rather simple character, by tickling him with all kinds of disguised flattery and caresses, calling his uncouth language and rude expressions "flowers of Ciceronian eloquence."
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