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  1. adjective Crude; unrefined.
  2. adjective Awkward or clumsy; ungraceful.
  3. adjective Archaic Foreign; unfamiliar.

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  • Dilly is just such a puppy as ever; and it is so uncouth, after so long an intermission. —  The Journal to Stella
  • Constant Pierre: “This composer is often grotesque and uncouth, and sometimes flies majestically like an eagle and sometimes crawls along stony paths. —  Musicians of To-Day
  • Above this straggling pageant of ancient kings and heroes loomed other shapes as well - malformed, uncouth, and terrible. —  Conan Of The Isles
  • "If he's uncouth, my dear, then doubtless he won't wish to attend your ball. —  Sharpe's Waterloo
  • Noami Russell Herald House Independence, Missouri —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2
 

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rude ·  grotesque ·  repulsive ·  ungainly ·  barbarous ·  clumsy ·  harsh ·  vulgar ·  ugly ·  inhuman ·  homely ·  unnatural
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  1. Middle English, unknown, strange, from Old English uncūth : un-, not; see un-1 + cūth, known; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial. unkid, unked, unkard, Scots unco (see unco), from Middle English uncouth, unkouth, onkouth, uncuth, unkuth, uncothe, from Anglo-Saxon uncüth (Icelandic ūkunnr = Gothic (Moesogothic) unkunths), unknown, unusual, strange; as un- + couth.
 

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