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Definition of uncouth in English: uncouthadjective ʌnˈkuːθˌənˈkuθ 1Lacking good manners, refinement, or grace. he is unwashed, uncouth, and drunk most of the time Example sentencesExamples - If, while performing his duties, he was approached by petitioners who seemed uncouth or outlandish, he should not gawk or make them feel uncomfortable; rather, he should treat them politely and proceed with business as usual.
- Problem was the tourists (an uncouth lot) kept pulling over the ice cream signs outside and the heat made the ice cream melt very quickly.
- Unless he's uncouth and rude, give him a chance.
- It turns out that she has a few skeletons in her closet, including parents who could optimistically be considered uncouth and a husband, Jake, who has refused to give her a divorce.
- There was some name-calling and uncouth behaviour on the bus but nothing of the targeted and persistent nature required to constitute bullying.
- You are nothing but an uncouth, patronizing, unprincipled, rowdy group of misfits who aren't fit for any respectable job!
- There is a lot of snobbery - it's looked upon as a bit uncouth.
- Shouting matches in the street are so uncouth, but sometimes you've just gotta.
- He's uncouth and socially immature, but all he really wants is to have a few friends.
- He was quite tall - taller than her and Blake, anyway - and had rather uncouth hair, as if it hadn't been cut for some time.
- ‘You had a beard,’ she said, ‘dark in parts, still somewhat ragged and uncouth, not at all sophisticated.’
- Max is unsophisticated, uncouth, rough and tough - but his heart is in the right place.
- Elijah is smart, outspoken and strangely confident; David is uncouth, shy and subdued.
- I haven't done anything to you, so I can't see the reason why I am treated in such an uncouth manner.
- This was disgraceful, uncouth behaviour on your part.
- Make no mistake, Harris is still sneering at the uncouth accents of his compatriots, except now he calls them consumers instead of hicks and they live in a subdivision instead of a holler.
- Asked whether the contract was worth £80m, he said: ‘My mum said it would be really uncouth of me to talk about money - but I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams.’
- You are the rudest, most foul, vulgar, offensive, and uncouth child I've ever seen!
- Feeling guilty about repossessing the Massie family home, Cooper and Leah hire Dale as a labourer on the property, but secretly object to his table manners and uncouth ways.
- The left thinks him politically uncouth; the right thinks him socially uncouth.
Synonyms uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unrefined, unpolished, unsophisticated, common, low, plebeian, philistine, rough, coarse, provincial, rustic, crude, gross, loutish, hooligan, boorish, oafish Neanderthal, barbarian, barbarous, barbaric, bearish, primitive, savage churlish, uncivil, rude, impolite, discourteous, disrespectful, unmannerly, bad-mannered, ill-mannered, ill-bred, indecorous, ungallant, ungentlemanly, unladylike, vulgar, crass, indelicate, offensive North American backwoods, hillbilly, hick informal yobbish, slobbish, clodhopping - 1.1 (of art or language) lacking sophistication or delicacy.
uncouth sketches of peasants Example sentencesExamples - ‘His art was called original, free, honest and strong, as well as crude and uncouth,’ said Conrads.
- The drawings share some of the sculptures' rough and uncouth qualities: the line is generally neutral, even unmodulated, and acquires power through repetition rather than finesse.
- I hardly see how one person can cause all of that to happen and ruin a whole day, no matter how uncouth he is.
- The uncouth language of the younger generation was particularly distressing.
- ‘Well, you're not going back to school until September, so we have a while,’ Elaine said sensibly, slightly annoyed by Gabriella's uncouth laughter.
- Squalid public bickering was unknown to him, let alone the use of uncouth language.
- Why did you just let him leave, I would think you would have attacked him on the spot like an uncouth laymen reviewing my work.
- Oh, Joshua I believe that's a little uncouth of you to ask, but I'll answer you regardless.
- Irregular and uncouth in form, rough in texture, and often repulsive in content, it summed up the distinctive traits of grotesque ugliness, standing as a debased counterpoint to exalted, flawless classical perfection.
- If my memory serves me correctly, we were talking about your uncouth mouth?
- Though she could hold the rapt attention of an audience for hours on end with her brilliant wit, all thought it rather odd when she fell into brief lapses of unexplainable, uncouth laughter.
- The naiveté is ours if we pretend that Young is simply an uncouth, primitive painter, completely unaware of the history of the medium and some of its major practitioners.
- Now they're being told they are uncouth as well…
- The figure in blue pointed and gave a command in an uncouth language.
2archaic (of a place) wild, remote, or spartan. his uncouth cell in Fleet prison Example sentencesExamples - But, like many other prosperous geezers, they would prefer to hit the links and avoid uncouth places where nobody has heard of Metamucil.
Derivatives adverbʌnˈkuːθliˌənˈkuθli Also, I responded rather uncouthly to Tom's amusement when he found out that I had gotten detention. Example sentencesExamples - Evander stared at her uncouthly when her face was revealed to him fully by the lights from the front of the venue.
- He hated when guys talked about his sister, especially in that degrading uncouthly lewd way they loved, especially in the locker rooms.
nounʌnˈkuːθnəsˌənˈkuθnəs The penchant for booing by baseball spectators probably reached its lowest level of uncouthness in 1985 when the first-place Toronto Blue Jays met the second-place Yankees in the opener of a crucial four-game series at Yankee Stadium. Example sentencesExamples - Uncertain what to be more mad at, Eric's drugs, Eric's uncouthness, or his own inability to think, he turned his head back towards Bryan's smirking cousin.
- Probably not very, given the essential uncouthness of the town, but at least it shows they're trying.
Origin Old English uncūth 'unknown', from un-1 'not' + cūth (past participle of cunnan 'know, be able'). A word that originally meant ‘unknown’. For much of the history of uncouth, most people would not have used or understood its opposite, couth. This originally meant ‘known’ but was later only used in Scottish English, for ‘kind’ or ‘comfortable’. Uncouth, though, developed a fully independent life. It came to refer to unsophisticated language or style in the late 17th century, and then to uncultured or ill-mannered people or behaviour. In 1896 the English essayist and critic Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) was the first to use couth as a deliberate opposite of uncouth meaning ‘cultured, well-mannered’. Ungainly (early 17th century) developed in a similar way. There is a word gainly, but it has never been common and its original meaning, ‘suitable, fitting’, now occurs only in Scottish dialect. Gainly came from the old word gain, which was used especially in the senses ‘kindly’ and ‘convenient’, and is of Scandinavian origin.
Definition of uncouth in US English: uncouthadjectiveˌənˈkuθˌənˈko͞oTH 1(of a person or their appearance or behavior) lacking good manners, refinement, or grace. he is unwashed, uncouth, and drunk most of the time Example sentencesExamples - ‘You had a beard,’ she said, ‘dark in parts, still somewhat ragged and uncouth, not at all sophisticated.’
- This was disgraceful, uncouth behaviour on your part.
- Asked whether the contract was worth £80m, he said: ‘My mum said it would be really uncouth of me to talk about money - but I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams.’
- I haven't done anything to you, so I can't see the reason why I am treated in such an uncouth manner.
- Make no mistake, Harris is still sneering at the uncouth accents of his compatriots, except now he calls them consumers instead of hicks and they live in a subdivision instead of a holler.
- Elijah is smart, outspoken and strangely confident; David is uncouth, shy and subdued.
- If, while performing his duties, he was approached by petitioners who seemed uncouth or outlandish, he should not gawk or make them feel uncomfortable; rather, he should treat them politely and proceed with business as usual.
- The left thinks him politically uncouth; the right thinks him socially uncouth.
- Feeling guilty about repossessing the Massie family home, Cooper and Leah hire Dale as a labourer on the property, but secretly object to his table manners and uncouth ways.
- Problem was the tourists (an uncouth lot) kept pulling over the ice cream signs outside and the heat made the ice cream melt very quickly.
- There was some name-calling and uncouth behaviour on the bus but nothing of the targeted and persistent nature required to constitute bullying.
- Unless he's uncouth and rude, give him a chance.
- Max is unsophisticated, uncouth, rough and tough - but his heart is in the right place.
- Shouting matches in the street are so uncouth, but sometimes you've just gotta.
- He was quite tall - taller than her and Blake, anyway - and had rather uncouth hair, as if it hadn't been cut for some time.
- You are nothing but an uncouth, patronizing, unprincipled, rowdy group of misfits who aren't fit for any respectable job!
- It turns out that she has a few skeletons in her closet, including parents who could optimistically be considered uncouth and a husband, Jake, who has refused to give her a divorce.
- You are the rudest, most foul, vulgar, offensive, and uncouth child I've ever seen!
- There is a lot of snobbery - it's looked upon as a bit uncouth.
- He's uncouth and socially immature, but all he really wants is to have a few friends.
Synonyms uncivilized, uncultured, uncultivated, unrefined, unpolished, unsophisticated, common, low, plebeian, philistine, rough, coarse, provincial, rustic, crude, gross, loutish, hooligan, boorish, oafish - 1.1 (especially of art or language) lacking sophistication or delicacy.
uncouth sketches of peasants Example sentencesExamples - Irregular and uncouth in form, rough in texture, and often repulsive in content, it summed up the distinctive traits of grotesque ugliness, standing as a debased counterpoint to exalted, flawless classical perfection.
- ‘Well, you're not going back to school until September, so we have a while,’ Elaine said sensibly, slightly annoyed by Gabriella's uncouth laughter.
- If my memory serves me correctly, we were talking about your uncouth mouth?
- The drawings share some of the sculptures' rough and uncouth qualities: the line is generally neutral, even unmodulated, and acquires power through repetition rather than finesse.
- The uncouth language of the younger generation was particularly distressing.
- Squalid public bickering was unknown to him, let alone the use of uncouth language.
- Though she could hold the rapt attention of an audience for hours on end with her brilliant wit, all thought it rather odd when she fell into brief lapses of unexplainable, uncouth laughter.
- The naiveté is ours if we pretend that Young is simply an uncouth, primitive painter, completely unaware of the history of the medium and some of its major practitioners.
- I hardly see how one person can cause all of that to happen and ruin a whole day, no matter how uncouth he is.
- The figure in blue pointed and gave a command in an uncouth language.
- Oh, Joshua I believe that's a little uncouth of you to ask, but I'll answer you regardless.
- Now they're being told they are uncouth as well…
- ‘His art was called original, free, honest and strong, as well as crude and uncouth,’ said Conrads.
- Why did you just let him leave, I would think you would have attacked him on the spot like an uncouth laymen reviewing my work.
- 1.2archaic (of a place) uncomfortable, especially because of remoteness or poor conditions.
Example sentencesExamples - But, like many other prosperous geezers, they would prefer to hit the links and avoid uncouth places where nobody has heard of Metamucil.
Origin Old English uncūth ‘unknown’, from un- ‘not’ + cūth (past participle of cunnan ‘know, be able’). |