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But, I must uncouthly ask, at what price?

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2022

They are found from the thickness of a warship's cable to that of pack-thread; the stronger ones often uncouthly twisted together, and binding tree to tree.

From The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Gosse, Philip Henry

The fire-places were not all furnished with cranes, but they were all uncouthly wide and deep.

From Queechy, Volume I by Warner, Susan

Assuredly it could not have been easy to find a fiction so uncouthly terrible as this in the hypochondria of Hamlet.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

So the moorsmen, blessing her uncouthly for her fairness and kind words, went back with their furs and bows into their fastnesses.

From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford, Ford Madox