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    uncouth


    1. This kooky old man reminded her a little of her Pap Pap, even though he was a little uncouth


    2. His voice and language are more uncouth, and more


    3. And cry out foul, now that's uncouth


    4. “She can be rather uncouth, Granny, but her total lack of conscience is a real asset in my line of business


    5. She told him that she was an uncouth woman who under any other circumstances,


    6. It was too much for them, and they found themselves giving expression to passionate and vehement resentment, all of which only tended to arouse the mob spirit in this ungodly and uncouth assembly


    7. uncouth, and needs to repent and join the crusade


    8. Though that was her way of doing things, she realized with frustration that Americans were much more liberal and uncouth concerning such matters and that she would merely have to tolerate this, irrespective of the difficulty in accepting that which was not rigid and serious, while vacationing here in this foreign land


    9. Believe it or not, as uncouth as these beasts were,


    10. interests in the system, in spite of the foul uncouth misgivings,

    11. among the most uncouth of the Bollobane


    12. foul uncouth mannerisms? Hath they neglected their base


    13. of the most uncouth


    14. as it is uncouth


    15. intimate things would be uncouth and ungentlemanly


    16. Learn about everything, especially weird and uncouth things


    17. He is more worried than he will admit - give him time, Lady, he is not always this uncouth


    18. I guess she knew factory workers were uncouth but had no idea


    19. John was irritated by Tom's uncouth manner and untidy appearance


    20. “Animals sure can behave in an uncouth manner at times

    21. He said it was uncouth and below his office to attend


    22. This time Stephanie had had enough of Al’s uncouth behavior


    23. She looked the queerest figure, heavy, middle-aged, uncouth, ugly, standing there passionately expressing her readiness to begin; and Herr Dremmel unconsciously seeing this, and bored by having had to explain the obvious at such length and spend a valuable half hour bringing a woman to reason--why could they never go to it by themselves?--wasted no more words having got her there, but brushed a hasty kiss across her hair and went away looking at his watch


    24. She hated the editor’s bluster and uncouth manners, but she was used to them and knew he would relent after he had vented his spleen


    25. Peter had lived in Birmingham for most of his live, and since this city had a large black population, Peter knew too well just how uncouth and savage blacks were


    26. The ordinary happy, smiling consumer; if faced with any honesty: will flee in fear and anger and outrage at how uncouth the other person was


    27. But, like life also, it is a poor thing and a very uncouth affair if it has nothing but primitive conditions to recommend it


    28. Lizaveta was of lower rank than her sister, unmarried and awfully uncouth in appearance, remarkably tall with long feet that looked as if they were bent outwards


    29. Then with the same deliberation he scrutinised the uncouth, unkempt figure and unshaven face of Razumihin, who looked him boldly and inquiringly in the face without rising from his seat


    30. All the editions printed in Spain from 1637 to 1771, when the famous printer Ibarra took it up, were mere trade editions, badly and carelessly printed on vile paper and got up in the style of chap-books intended only for popular use, with, in most instances, uncouth

    31. And besides all this they are harsh in their style, incredible in their achievements, licentious in their amours, uncouth in their courtly speeches, prolix in their battles, silly in their arguments, absurd in their travels, and, in short, wanting in everything like intelligent art; for which reason they deserve to be banished from the Christian commonwealth as a worthless breed


    32. Yes, in the mists of the sea, and in their remoteness from the rest of the race, the shapes of those men appeared distorted, uncouth and faint--so faint as to be almost invisible


    33. I shall call hills steep, which ought to be bold; surfaces strange and uncouth, which ought to be irregular and rugged; and distant objects out of sight, which ought only to be indistinct through the soft medium of a hazy atmosphere


    34. And so they were unaccustomed, painfully uncouth in the simplest social intercourse, suffering, and yet insolent in their superiority


    35. It was the town that seemed savage and uncouth, glaring on the clouds at the back of him


    36. Endeavoring, then, to collect his ideas, he prepared to perform that species of incantation, and those uncouth rites, under which the Indian conjurers are accustomed to conceal their ignorance and impotency


    37. "Though not a vaunting and bloodily disposed Goliath," returned David, drawing a sling from beneath his parti-colored and uncouth attire, "I have not forgotten the example of the Jewish boy


    38. Me sits there with his augur's rod of ash, in borrowed sandals, by day beside a livid sea, unbeheld, in violet night walking beneath a reign of uncouth stars


    39. As he crept along with his eyes on the ground, the man gave utterance at intervals to uncouth, inarticulate sounds


    40. The pathway among the woods seemed wilder, more uncouth with its rude natural obstacles, and less trodden by the foot of man, than he remembered it on his outward journey

    41. possessed him he would arrange bedroom chairs in rude resemblance of a motorcar and would crouch on the foremost of them, bent forward and staring fixedly ahead, making uncouth and ghastly noises, till the climax was reached, when, turning a complete somersault, he would lie prostrate amidst the ruins of the chairs, apparently completely satisfied for the moment


    42. Lerys Canal was one of the oldest on Safehold, carved through the heart of the Kyznetzov Mountains by the Archangels themselves to connect Yu-kwau (although the city had been little more than a smallish town—called “New York,” or some other uncouth, barbarian name—at the time) all the way to Shwei Bay, fourteen hundred miles to the east


    43. In the flickering light of the lantern, we saw it, a huge black mass coiled in the corner of its den and throwing a squat, uncouth shadow upon the whitewashed wall


    44. You know, one of those uncouth new people one’s so often coming across nowadays, One of those free-thinkers you know, who are reared d’emblee in theories of atheism, scepticism, and materialism


    45. And Senor Gamacho's oration, delectable to popular ears, went on in the heat and glare of the Plaza like the uncouth howlings of an inferior sort of devil cast into a white-hot furnace


    46. As if in a dream I was vaguely conscious that this was the japanned box which stood in front of him, and that he had drawn something out of it, something squat and uncouth, which now lay before him upon the table


    47. The sand-banks far out were spotted with uncouth crawling forms, huge turtles, strange saurians, and one great flat creature like a writhing, palpitating mat of black greasy leather, which flopped its


    48. Why should that uncouth pair sit here childless while the place crumbles about their ears? I will not disguise from you that I have taken a dislike to Beryl


    49. The Shire-hobbits referred to those of Bree, and to any others that lived beyond the borders, as Outsiders, and took very little interest in them, considering them dull and uncouth


    50. I deem it to be a tongue of the Black Land, since it is foul and uncouth





















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    Synonyms for "uncouth"

    coarse common rough-cut uncouth vulgar odd bizarre unusual curious queer unfamiliar unknown discourteous unmannerly uncivil ill-mannered awkward clumsy

    "uncouth" definitions

    lacking refinement or cultivation or taste