uncouth
- awkward, clumsy, or unmannerly: uncouth behavior; an uncouth relative who embarrasses the family.
- strange and ungraceful in appearance or form.
- unusual or strange.
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awkward, barbaric, boorish, cheap, coarse, crass, crude, discourteous, gawky, graceless, gross, heavy-handed, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, inelegant, loud, loutish, oafish, raunchyExamples from the Web for uncouth
Contemporary Examples of uncouth
Because while calling a passerby “sexy” may be uncouth, it shouldn't be illegal.
A child who masters the classics will stand apart from the uncouth boors on the school bus.
Sarkozy is known for running—television crews often film him, sweaty and uncouth, as he jogs in an NYPD t-shirt.
Historical Examples of uncouth
He was the first tragedian of the Comdie, and the most uncouth man in France or anywhere else.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
Their uncouth simplicity was, as they say of wines, their race.
The Letters of Robert BurnsRobert Burns
The sight of these things filled the boy with a respect for the uncouth fellow.
The Cruise of the Dry DockT. S. Stribling
For so uncouth a person he was strangely commendable and worthy.
Ruggles of Red GapHarry Leon Wilson
My own looked so enormous and clumsy and uncouth by comparison.
Kent Knowles: QuahaugJoseph C. Lincoln
uncouth
- lacking in good manners, refinement, or grace
Word Origin for uncouth
Word Origin and History for uncouth
Old English uncuð "unknown, uncertain, unfamiliar," from un- (1) "not" + cuð "known, well-known," past participle of cunnan "to know" (see can (v.)). Meaning "strange, crude, clumsy" is first recorded 1510s. The compound (and the thing it describes) widespread in IE languages, cf. Latin ignorantem, Old Norse ukuðr, Gothic unkunþs, Sanskrit ajnatah, Armenian ancanaut', Greek agnotos, Old Irish ingnad "unknown."