How To Use Couth In A Sentence

Probably not very, given the essential uncouthness of the town, but at least it shows they're trying.
But not many months thereafter we heard that he also had departed, leaving it ungarnished of men; and we deem that the cause thereof is that something uncouth is seen and heard therein, which folk may not endure. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
An earthy , uncouth, servile peasant creature old Katy was.
She may embarrass you with her uncouth behavior.
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.

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Trained manpower is needed in debt recovery or else you end up losing business through uncouth behaviour exhibited by some hotheads.
Max is unsophisticated, uncouth, rough and tough - but his heart is in the right place.
Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a 'tell ye a' wud lay doon this auld worn-oot ruckle o 'a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith sittin 'at the fireside, an' the bairns round ye, couthy an 'canty again; but it's nae tae be, Tammas, it's nae tae be. Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)
Shouting matches in the street are so uncouth, but sometimes you've just gotta.
And then we were amazed to hear the sound of singing -- amazed, for it was not the uncouth singing of negroes (who in happy circumstances delight to uplift their voices in psalms) nor yet the boisterous untuneable roaring of rough seamen, like Vetch's buccaneers, but a most melodious and pleasing sound, which put me in mind (and Cludde also) of the madrigal singers of our good town of Shrewsbury. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
He came: he found the islanders beside themselves at this unwelcome resurrection of the dead and the detested; he was shown, as adminicular of testimony, the traveller’s uncouth and thick-soled boots; he argued, and finding argument unavailing, consented to enter the room and examine with his own eyes the sleeping Pict. Records of a Family of Engineers
What drives me up the wall is when the uncouth classes begin their fighting and screeching and petty arguments, or when snide little tattletales run up to me to tell on people.
In the email, Bourne, 60, from Dawlish, Devon, apparently rebukes Withers, 29, for her behaviour during a visit to the family in April, which she describes as "staggering in its uncouthness and lack of grace". Mother-in-law's withering email to bride-to-be goes viral
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.
Prestimion chuckled at the sound of Gialaurys's uncouth heavy basso groaning along beneath the others nearby. LORD PRESTIMION
Unless he's uncouth and rude, give him a chance.
There, in 1999 the Americans were guilty of some of the most outrageously uncouth and unsporting behaviour ever displayed in a sporting arena.
One was Mario, a huge, excitable Italian — he was like a city policeman with operatic gestures — and the other, a hairy, uncouth animal whom we called the Magyar; I think he was a Transylvanian, or something even more remote. Down and Out in Paris and London
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.
Left alone, she is exposed to assorted rather too colorful locals: hulks and half-wits, telephone romancers and spurious cops, none of them couth.
He is not otherwise uncouth, so how can I cure him of this revolting habit? Times, Sunday Times
15Elshtain argues that medieval men and women inhabited a structured but loose-fitting 'saeculum', in which distinctions between war and peace, reason and emotion, nature and culture, science and faith, domestic and civil, proper and uncouth, even male and female were to some degree blurred. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
Haven't the old and the middle classes always felt terrorised by gangs of young, uncouth scoundrels and scallywags loitering in the shadows of our cities?
His uncouth son who shows no respect to his illiterate father compounds the dilemma.
‘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.
What turns too many of them into uncouth cads on court?
This led them to conclude that they were uncouth, filthy creatures who barely knew how to look after themselves.
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.
The latter appendage, short and "bunchy", ended abruptly, as if either cut off or "driven in" -- adding to the uncouth appearance of the animal. The Boy Slaves
` ` Aweel, aweel, 'said Hobbie, mounting his horse, ` ` it serves naething to strive wi cripples --- they are aye cankered; but I'll just tell ye ae thing, neighbour, that if things be otherwise than weel wi' Grace Armstrong, I'se gie you a scouther, if there be a tar-barrel in the five parishes. '' The Black Dwarf
The rites that he practised were of an uncouth, barbarous, and unusual nature.
The shades of evening were growing thicker around us as my conductor finished his long narrative with this moral — ‘Ye see, birkie, it is nae chancy thing to tak a stranger traveller for a guide, when you are in an uncouth land.’ Redgauntlet
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.
On 10 June the Convention passed the Law of 22 Prairial, written by Couthon and Robespierre, greatly accelerating the Terror by streamlining the process by which suspected counterrevolutionaries were tried and (nearly always) convicted before the Revolutionary Tribunal. Annotations
He's uncouth and socially immature, but all he really wants is to have a few friends.
One was Mario, a huge, excitable Italianhe was like a city policeman with operatic gesturesand the other, a hairy, uncouth animal whom we called the Magyar; I think he was a Transylvanian, or something even more remote. Down and Out in Paris and London
He was the antithesis of the archetypal young black man, particularly as those seen though pre-1994 racist eyes as being illiterate, arrogant, uncouth and untutored.
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? "The trouble with Sanjay Gupta," says Paul Krugman, is seen in the way he "mugged" Michael Moore.
Ye haue another vicious speech which the Greekes call Acyron, we call it the vncouthe, and is when we vse an obscure and darke word, and vtterly repugnant to that we would expresse, if it be not by vertue of the figures metaphore, allegorie, abusion, or such other laudable figure before remembred, as he that said by way of Epithete. The Arte of English Poesie
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.
Isn't the grimy reality of the rock'n'roll life a bit uncouth for such an exotic woman? Times, Sunday Times
Here and there pieces of their quaint and uncouth shaped apparatus, the aludel, the alembic, and the alkaner, the pelican, the crucible, and the water-bath, occupy their respective stations. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832
I say show NO mercy, no "couth" (?), no restraint on obscenity. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
Isn't the grimy reality of the rock'n'roll life a bit uncouth for such an exotic woman? Times, Sunday Times
To rain "scouth," is to rain abundantly or heavily. The Proverbs of Scotland
When this was couth [known] to the other ships where the king was, how the others fared, then was it as though it were all redeless, and the king fared him home, and the ealdormen, and the high witan, and forlet the ships thus lightly. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain
As a Roman military outpost, and with the aid of its uncouth denizens, the island was used as a staging point for the invasion of Great Britain.
The French-speaking conquerors of 1066 found none of this intelligible: to their ears Anglo-Saxon was barbaric and uncouth.
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.
Also, your slavish use of obsolete, twee and anglicised Hibernicisms is peculiarly un-Irish, not to mention unconvincing and uncouth.
Fowler, in 1850, cited publishment and releasement with no apparent thought that they were uncouth. Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary
The great man of letters William Dean Howells wrote in "Stories of Ohio" 1897 that if Chapman was right in his Swedenborgian belief that we are encircled by spirits that reflect our own behavior, then "this harmless, loving, uncouth, half-crazy man walked daily with the angels of God. A Pro-Growth Strategy
An almighty boulder has been heaved into the pond, scattering and displacing all manner of beauty with an uncouth splash.
I haven't done anything to you, so I can't see the reason why I am treated in such an uncouth manner.
From USA Today: "To hear Premiere magazine tell it, Arnold Schwarzenegger is an uncouth boor who frequently groped women and engaged in extramarital liaisons. Boing Boing: February 11, 2001 - February 17, 2001 Archives
The development of the main senses took place in OF., and is not free from obscurity (cf., however, couth and known). 5 posts from September 2009
a _caschrom_, the most uncouth hunter that ever paunched a deer, would tell of such histories in the most scrupulous language and with cunning regard for figure of speech. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
It seemed to be a mixture of blue-rinsed moral disapproval and parochial couthiness, mixed with a paranoid, negative preoccupation Quite Ugly One Morning
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 International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850
‘Woooo,’ they shouted in their uncouth manner, sloshing beer on the pristine white of the slopes.
The party of no class, anything goes is turning profanity and lack of couth into money to begat more no class. Democrats raise money off of Biden's F-bomb
You are nothing but an uncouth, patronizing, unprincipled, rowdy group of misfits who aren't fit for any respectable job!
'Aweel, aweel,' said Hobbie, mounting his horse, 'it serves naething to strive wi' cripples, -- they are aye cankered; but I'll just tell you ae thing, neighbour, that if things be otherwise than weel wi 'Grace Armstrong, I'se gie you a scouther if there be a tar barrel in the five parishes.' The Proverbs of Scotland
Benny might refer to Rigoletto as “that fatso with the sword” after Shrimp tries to couth him up by giving him opera tickets. 2009 August 19 « One-Minute Book Reviews
Now they're being told they are uncouth as well…
The Emperor is thus uncouth and barbaric in his wealth.
But the informant added: 'At the table and in his speech he shows many facets of rather uncouth behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
He was no more sober than the crowd above which he now towered -- a wild crowd, uncouthly garmented, every foot moccasined or muc-lucked [3], with mittens dangling from necks and with furry ear-flaps raised so that they took on the seeming of the winged helmets of the Norsemen. Chapter III
Spitting at opponents is disgusting and uncouth and ought to be harshly punished.
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.
Build on facts, not some silly argument about who's "uncouth". "The trouble with Sanjay Gupta," says Paul Krugman, is seen in the way he "mugged" Michael Moore.
This is not the case with the great Latin apology which closely follows them in date, the "Apologeticus" of Tertullian, which is in the uncouth and untranslatable language affected by its author. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
There was no way that he should be allowed to speak for this country because he has no couth, no brains and doesn't know the meaning of the word diplomacy.
‘You had a beard,’ she said, ‘dark in parts, still somewhat ragged and uncouth, not at all sophisticated.’
What scared me witless recently, not to be uncouth and say 'shitless', was to look at a topographical representation of the society outlined in Orwell's 1984, delineating the small proportion of 'inner party' as '2\%' - and thinking of the 'trickle down' theory of economics deployed as rationale for tax cuts in the CounterPunch
Bad language is one thing, but parts of this uncouth comedy are simply badly written. Times, Sunday Times
People of the Black Forest are a dreamy and superstitious race; they would stand and look at the uncouth figure in the water for a moment and then run. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World
Mind you, I'm couth enough to refrain from biting my toenails, but that's also a flexibility issue. Rabid Rewind: The Orphanage
Still more shadowy were the sinister crocodilian outlines — alligators and other uncouth shapes, culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon. A Pair of Blue Eyes
But as the inflammation is seldom I suppose confined to the upper part of the trachea only, but exists at the same time in other parts of the lungs, and as no inflammation of the tonsils is generally perceptible, the uncouth name of cynanche trachealis should be changed for _peripneumonia trachialis_. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
When others spoke they seemed harsh and uncouth by contrast; and if they gainsaid the voice, anger was kindled in the hearts of those under the spell. May 26th, 2009
No, I ken what you mean by that-Roger Mac showed me the wee picture ye drew for Jem, all tiny things like dragonflies, prinking in the flowers" He made an uncouth noise in the back of his throat. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
A minute or two later, three grimy, uncouth-looking men came into the hall, whom Mavis took to be gasmen. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl
Frankly, I hope that the female contestants are a bit more couth about their competitiveness than we were, Matt.
As schooling became somewhat more standardized over time, these prescriptivist grammarians became almost Biblical in proportion, even to the point that during the Colonial period the aboriginals were discouraged from speaking their own language because it was uncouth, uncivilized, imperfect, and perhaps most importantly, non-Christian.
The stereotypical booner is often described as someone who is uncouth and rough when it comes to social niceties.
He was a stout man, of a vinous complexion, with what I should call here, where our speech is mostly uncouth, an educated accent
The figure in blue pointed and gave a command in an uncouth language.
And the curiosity - dealer, who plainly had not expected his uncouth visitor, seemed disconcerted and embarrassed.
an untutored and uncouth human being
The style of these epistles doth not a little weaken the credit of them, being turgent, swelling with uncouth words and phrases, affected manner and ways of expression, new compositions of words, multiplying titles of honour to men, — exceedingly remote and distant from the plainness and simplicity of the first writers among the Christians, as is evident by comparing these with the epistle of Clemens before mentioned, that of Polycarpus in The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Negligent parents leave their children with uncouth friends, relatives or even strangers, who in turn connive with witches to kill the children for money. Uganda’s epidemic of child sacrifice
Thomas Campion, in 1602 or so, came out with an attack on the uncouthness of rhyme, which was very strange for him to do because he was one of the great lute-song writers of the day. THE ANTHOLOGIST
Even the wives and daughters of low tradesmen, who, like shovel-nosed sharks, prey upon the blubber of those uncouth whales of fortune, are infected with the same rage of displaying their importance; and the slightest indisposition serves them for a pretext to insist upon being conveyed to Bath, where they may hobble country-dances and cotillons among lordlings, squires, counsellors, and clergy. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
In the intimate talks of that time Myles imparted something of his honest solidity to Gascoyne's somewhat weathercock nature, and to Myles's ruder and more uncouth character Gascoyne lent a tone of his gentler manners, learned in his pagehood service as attendant upon the Countess and her ladies. Men of Iron
A gang of uncouth practical jokers, exploding in horse-laughter, skylarked about, jostling rudely. The Forest
If you don't approve of how I've done something — — the website, for example — — there is a couth and appropriate recourse which will allow you to express your opinion. "Bathsheba of my choosing"
All perfectly couth and prosperous, not a blade of grass out of place, but unbelievably boring.
Come doon oot o 'that this meenit, Jock Gordon, ye gomeral!" cried Meg, shaking her fist at the uncouth shape twisting and singing against the sunset sky like one demented. The Lilac Sunbonnet
(uncouth), lumpen (thug), yaar (friend) and stepney (spare tyre). India eNews
With the 147, the two main buts are an uncouth ride, and, of course, the familiar scourge of powerful front wheel drive cars - torque steer.
There is a lot of snobbery - it's looked upon as a bit uncouth.
To a Japanese, spilling anything is uncouth.
The hair upon other large bears (the polar excepted) is what may be termed "tufty," and their forms are different, being generally more uncouth and "chunkier. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
How "uncouth", hey? sometimes I even get a hotdog. Withkerth Diary Entry
Bruno doesn't know why he learns so quickly - "My father never quite lost his touch of aboriginal uncouthness" - but under the tutelage of an autistic janitor and a very liberal-minded cognitive psychologist named Lydia Littlemore, he emerges from his "prelapsarian nudity" and enters the world of conscious thought, "the awesome thaumaturgy of mere language. Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love
Armstrong, I'se gie you a scouther if there be a tar-barrel in the five parishes. The Black Dwarf
He can't even pretend to have any manners or couth! Obama says Tea Partiers owe him a thank you
Bruno doesn't know why he learns so quickly - "My father never quite lost his touch of aboriginal uncouthness" - but under the tutelage of an autistic janitor and a very liberal-minded cognitive psychologist named Lydia Littlemore, he emerges from his "prelapsarian nudity" and enters the world of conscious thought, "the awesome thaumaturgy of mere language. Review of Benjamin Hale's 'Evolution of Bruno Littlemore': Aping human love
As the badge of an authentic untimeliness, uncouthness marks the expectation of future rewriting, conceives itself as the object of subsequent distressings.
Traditionally, the high-minded have scorned public drinking as a bit uncouth, while pop counter-culturalists have viewed it as a bit uncool.
: cleansing or scouring agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration caducity: perishableness, senility compossible: possible in coesistence with something else embrangle: to confuse or entangle exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering): short and stout, squat griseous Club Troppo
He came: he found the islanders beside themselves at this unwelcome resurrection of the dead and the detested; he was shown, as adminicular of testimony, the traveller's uncouth and thick-soled boots; he argued, and finding argument unavailing, consented to enter the room and examine with his own eyes the sleeping Pict. Records of a Family of Engineers
The way they looked at her made her uncomfortable, she knew not why; while there was an uncouthness and roughness about them that did not please her. Chapter 2
There scores on scores of things, many of them unco, that is uncouth, the first meaning of which is unknown, to his eyes, stood huddled together in the dim light. Sir Gibbie
uncouthly, he told stories that made everybody at the table wince
But its chaste beauty and eccentric humor, with its touch of Dada, its move towards abstraction, and its cool, couth understanding of dance as state of mind, was strangely at one with his century.
I hardly see how one person can cause all of that to happen and ruin a whole day, no matter how uncouth he is.
But the informant added: 'At the table and in his speech he shows many facets of rather uncouth behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
If my memory serves me correctly, we were talking about your uncouth mouth?
The story is vaguely compelling, shot through with occasional snatches of uncouthness. 2010 April 06 « The BookBanter Blog
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.
Men are also a lot less couth than women in public.
Bad language is one thing, but parts of this uncouth comedy are simply badly written. Times, Sunday Times
And the most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. On Experience, Part Two « So Many Books
A-ba-ba," he blattered, and made uncouth gestures, by which I think he meant to signify that he wanted the Wonder to come and play with him. The Wonder
The moon's idealizing glamour had left no trace of the uncouthness of the place which the daylight revealed; the little log house, the great overhanging chestnut-oaks, the jagged precipice before the door, the vague outlines of the distant ranges, all suffused with a magic sheen, might have seemed a stupendous alto-rilievo in silver repoussè. In the Tennessee mountains,
The great man of letters William Dean Howells wrote in "Stories of Ohio" 1897 that if Chapman was right in his Swedenborgian belief that we are encircled by spirits that reflect our own behavior, then "this harmless, loving, uncouth, half-crazy man walked daily with the angels of God. A Pro-Growth Strategy
Maura, the village madwoman, danced more wildly than all the rest, chanting uncouth rhymes.
She saw but what she chose to see, and she chose always to see the best, avoiding coarseness and uncouthness without effort, as a matter of instinct. Chapter 2
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.
Panfilio, her son, reproves her thereanent, whereupon she promises to mend her ways if he will lay aside certain uncouth habits.
Keats was criticised as uncouth and inharmonious but is now venerated as one of our greatest Romantic poets.
A lumbering, ill-formed young man, very dark, and uncouth in his speech. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
You are the rudest, most foul, vulgar, offensive, and uncouth child I've ever seen!
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. The Greatest English Classic
In high circles in South Alabama showing up early or at the precise time invited is a faux pas of immense miscalculation and considered a sign of uncouth upbringing. Not being on time a high art in Mexico
Tammas, ma puir fallow, if it could avail, a 'tell ye a' wud lay doon this auld worn-oot ruckle o 'a body o' mine juist tae see ye baith sittin 'at the fireside, an' the bairns roond ye, couthy an 'canty again; but it's no tae be, Tammas, it's no tae be. A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 2
Myles's ruder and more uncouth character Gascoyne lent a tone of his gentler manners, learned in his pagehood service as attendant upon the Men of Iron
It is stunning to see Mumbai's beautiful people turned in the space of two hours into ugly, pock marked, uncouth vulgarians.
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. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
Squalid public bickering was unknown to him, let alone the use of uncouth language.
“Yes, your haner,” said the man, “give us God! we do not want money;” and the uncouth girl said something, which sounded much like Give us God! but I hastened across the meadow, which was now quite dusky, and was presently in the inn with my wife and daughter. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
To come suddenly, on turning a corner, upon a colossal warrior, deterrently uncouth and frightfully battle-clad, in the act of dispatching a fallen foe, is a sensation not instantly dispelled by the fact that he is made of flowers. The Soul of the Far East
Calamity's an uncouth, sarsaparilla-swilling, gun-slinging frontierswoman who can shoot, scuffle, and spin tall tales as well as any man alive.
Many a time had he paused before it by day and by night, wondering who lived within its massive, irregular walls, behind those uncouth, barbarously sculptured saints who kept their interminable watch high up by the lozenged windows. The Witch of Prague
From being merely awkward, he at last became uncouth; but from the natural goodness of his heart, the nearest to him soon lost sight of his ungentleness from the rectitude of his intentions, and, to parody the poet, saw his deportment in his feelings. Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe — Volume 7
What’s uncouth is that pell-mell deployment of punctuation, Paul. Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » RE: DOWN WITH COMCAST
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. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens
The rain comes scouth when the wind's in the south. The Proverbs of Scotland
Won't the degenerate rustics of Sherston, so clearly in need of protection from themselves, go back to their ancient uncouth ways?
Jasmine had no couth around her brother's friends and did not mind mentioning the gynecologist in front of them.
: cleansing or scouring agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration caducity: perishableness, senility compossible: possible in coesistence with something else embrangle: to confuse or entangle exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering): short and stout, squat griseous Club Troppo
One of the more uncouth retorts was delivered by a hitter when the ump called a strike on a shoulder-high fastball.
Her manner to him was so gentle and gracious that Mrs. Gibson became alarmed, lest, in spite of his 'uncouthness' (as she was pleased to term it), he might come to be preferred to Osborne, who was so strangely neglecting his own interests, in Mrs. Gibson's opinion. Wives and Daughters
The uncouth language of the younger generation was particularly distressing.
The sleepiest and shabbiest of soldiery go wandering about, with the double curse of laziness and poverty, uncouthly wrinkling their misfitting regimentals; the dirtiest of children play with their impromptu toys (pigs and mud) in the feeblest of gutters; and the gauntest of dogs trot in and out of the dullest of archways, in perpetual search of something to eat, which they never seem to find. Pictures from Italy
‘His art was called original, free, honest and strong, as well as crude and uncouth,’ said Conrads.
It begins with a grieving boy beside his father's funeral pyre, who is claimed by a worryingly uncouth uncle and taken away to a grim new life of servitude.
Well, you said you wanted to appear uncouth, and part of being uncouth is being like a rube, or 'stupid'. Tyrese Gibson Returns for Transformers 3 | /Film
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.
She accepted the cup gratefully and without a hint of couth she gulped down the sparkling liquid as if it was water from the Fountain of Youth and she was on her deathbed.
Oh, Joshua I believe that's a little uncouth of you to ask, but I'll answer you regardless.
Too much chilli is thought of as a bit uncouth, isn't it? Times, Sunday Times
One of the more uncouth retorts was delivered by a hitter when the ump called a strike on a shoulder-high fastball.
What would be your couth response to my inconsiderate neighbors?
You could call her as wrong-headed as she was physically uncouth - but her staying-power was not going to be broken in minutes. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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.
But, like many other prosperous geezers, they would prefer to hit the links and avoid uncouth places where nobody has heard of Metamucil.
Like a gadfly you have been timing your intervention in my sleep routine with uncouth precision.
This rantipole hero had for some time singled out the blooming Katrina for the object of his uncouth gallantries, and though his amorous toyings were something like the gentle caresses and endearments of a bear, yet it was whispered that she did not altogether discourage his hopes. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy
The highly civilized apes swung gracefully from bough to bough, the Neanderthaler was uncouth and bound to the earth. Autumn
The fight began with a single word from Harcouth and her opponent opened with a roundhouse that would have broken her jaw had it connected.
To lay aside the world's distressing cares at sunset, to wipe his moistened brow, and "homeward plod his weary way" to his cabin small and lowly, where glows this cheerful love in one dear breast, in one sweet face, is to the uncouth "ploughman" a joy, a comfort, which many a prince doth envy. The Doctor's Daughter
‘Good morning, Sir,’ she replied with her usual couth that had been bestowed upon her since a very young, impressionable age.
My word verification was "couth" which beats being uncouth. Walkway over the Hudson
The development of the main senses took place in OF., and is not free from obscurity (cf., however, couth and known). 5 posts from September 2009
Elijah is smart, outspoken and strangely confident; David is uncouth, shy and subdued.
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.’
And the curiosity - dealer, who plainly had not expected his uncouth visitor, seemed disconcerted and embarrassed.
It is uncouth no longer; if it had never existed, perhaps intensate would now have been so no longer, uncouthness being, both etymologically and otherwise, a matter of strangeness as against familiarity. Formations.
-- Across the heath, encircled with fences of uncouth stones, stands a stern record of feudal yore; at the next turn peeps the rectory, encircled with old firs, trained fruit trees, and affectionate ivy; beneath yon darkened thickets rolls the lazy Ure, expanding into laky broadness; and, beyond yon western woods, which embower the peaceful hamlet, are seen the The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828
You have more couth, more tolerance and more intelligence.
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 CJR
Too much chilli is thought of as a bit uncouth, isn't it? Times, Sunday Times
Trained manpower is needed in debt recovery or else you end up losing business through uncouth behaviour exhibited by some hotheads.
As he grew older, Peter became practically blind, and “meningeal symptoms made it difficult for him to control the nerve reflexes of his head and neck, making him slobber and appear uncouth.” Castles of Steel
The Law of 22 Prairial (10 June 1794), written by Couthon and Robespierre, accelerated the Terror in its final six weeks. Annotations
We can say someone is unkempt, unruly, disconsolate or uncouth, but we can't normally say that he is kempt, ruly, consolate or couth unless we are exploiting the unfamiliar word for humorous effect.
Snobby people from other countries like to make fun of the U.S. for its abbreviated history and its uncouth culture, particularly compared with the millennial legacies of Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Haven't the old and the middle classes always felt terrorised by gangs of young, uncouth scoundrels and scallywags loitering in the shadows of our cities?
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.
I’se gie you a scouther if there be a tar-barrel in the five parishes.” The Black Dwarf
Ans. If that necessity were not voluntarily chosen which enforceth men to wrest and pervert the word of God, not only to mistaken, but strange, uncouth, and inconsistent senses, their so doing might perhaps seem not to be altogether without colourer and pretext; but when they willingly embrace those paths which will undoubtedly lead them into the briers, and, contrary to abundance of light and evidence of truth, embrace those persuasions which necessitate them to such courses, I know not what cloak they have left for their deviations. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
After all, Carville is an uncouth, bigmouthed, partisan hack, a Clinton sycophant who is not schooled in the nuances of policy. 40 More Years
Oliver went to the front door to welcome him and brought him into the kitchen, where his urbanity, like Oliver's, at once understood the inner worth, ignoring the outer rustic uncouthness, of the third individual at the table. The Elvis Latte
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.
As a conchologist, he described the shells collected on the United States Exploring Expedition by Joseph P. Couthouy, a fellow member with Gould of the BSNH, and other members of the Expedition's scientific staff.

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