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
How uncouthly the huge piano that occupies the corner at the left of the door looms out in the uncertain twilight!
From Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories by Joseph Lewis French
So true is this that graceful commonplaces, either spoken or written, are far more apt to produce a pleasing impression than weightier matter awkwardly uttered, or uncouthly expressed.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke
Love hies along in dusky ways, The moon his only light; The shadow-realm itself displays, And all uncouthly dight.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg
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
