Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Rarely; elegantly.
  • In an uncouth manner; oddly; strangely; awkwardly; clumsily.

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  • adverb In an uncouth manner.

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  • adverb in an uncouth manner

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Examples

  • But, nevertheless, blithering on uncouthly: regarding trespassing/squatting, empty structures are always posted (in my experience); it comes down to whether the owner, local police, and local courts all actually are prepared to enforce it.

    "Only mustard isn't a bird," Alice remarked. greygirlbeast 2010

  • He was no more sober than the crowd above which he now towered -- a wild crowd, uncouthly garmented, every foot moccasined or muc-lucked [3], with mittens dangling from necks and with furry ear-flaps raised so that they took on the seeming of the winged helmets of the Norsemen.

    Chapter III 2010

  • He experienced a momentary pang of shame that he should walk so uncouthly.

    Chapter 1 2010

  • The big-bodied, white-skinned northern dweller, rude and ferocious, bellows his anger uncouthly and drives a gross fist into the face of his foe.

    CHAPTER 20 2010

  • What ensued from the point when I stepped out of my father's house I can only report secondhand, as there was, after a short while, as I posed, a most uncouthly uproar that occasioned me to walk straight back into the room.

    The Stream and The Torrent 2009

  • I thought she spoke in a curious fashion, uncouthly, with a pronounced accent.

    Edith Södergran: a biographical profile - 4 David McDuff 2009

  • What ensued from the point when I stepped out of my father's house I can only report secondhand, as there was, after a short while, as I posed, a most uncouthly uproar that occasioned me to walk straight back into the room.

    The Stream and The Torrent 2009

  • The sleepiest and shabbiest of soldiery go wandering about, with the double curse of laziness and poverty, uncouthly wrinkling their misfitting regimentals; the dirtiest of children play with their impromptu toys (pigs and mud) in the feeblest of gutters; and the gauntest of dogs trot in and out of the dullest of archways, in perpetual search of something to eat, which they never seem to find.

    Pictures from Italy 2007

  • I don†™ t recall well-mannered former Republican Presidents acting so uncouthly.

    Think Progress » Daschle Asked To Depoliticize Iraq War Vote, Bush Refused 2005

  • “I don†™ t recall well-mannered former Republican Presidents acting so uncouthly.”

    Think Progress » Daschle Asked To Depoliticize Iraq War Vote, Bush Refused 2005

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