uncouth

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I am not without regard for the Merriam-Webster dictionary, but my advice to those who do not want to be regarded as anything from uneducated to uncouth is to stick with the unadorned

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

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  • I am not without regard for the Merriam-Webster dictionary, but my advice to those who do not want to be regarded as anything from uneducated to uncouth is to stick with the unadorned —  CJR
  • But I have seen your new gods, and understand: for, all grimy and mis-shapen and uncouth are they as they stand in your open places and at the corners of your streets. —  The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance
  • Castlereagh's language was commonplace, uncouth, and sometimes even ridiculous, and it happened only too often that in his anxiety to get his words out he became positively inarticulate. —  A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4)
  • The outer door opened and closed noiselessly to admit them--uncouth figures that passed swiftly up the stairway, glancing curiously about them--and dapper men who did not look up as they went. —  Mr. Achilles
  • At the head of a motley band of soldiery who came at her call--half- clad, uncouth, and savage--she rode into the west, sleeping at night upon the bare ground, sharing the camp food, dressed in plain tartan, but swift and fierce as any eagle. —  Famous Affinities of History — Complete
 

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Etymologies (2)

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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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