uncouth
adjective
awkward, clumsy, or unmannerly.
uncouthly
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a word derived from
uncouth.
Example Sentences
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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 Philip Henry Gosse
She realized that here, manifesting itself no matter how uncouthly, was the true spirit of research, a thing which she respected above all other impulses of the human brain.
From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
Robert Adair was, in truth, but a rough table attendant, but he was a kind one, and in all he said and did meant well, however uncouthly it might be expressed.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 by John Mackay Wilson
These grotesque humanoidal beings were the only living things which did not make him feel overgrown, uncouthly out of proportion, a hulking lout.
From The Enormous Room by Horace Leonard Gold
