Both Uses of
uncouth
in
Bleak House
- I recollect once thinking there was something in his manner, uncouth as it was, that denoted a fall in life.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- At the present time, in the dark little parlour certain feet below the level of the street—a grim, hard, uncouth parlour, only ornamented with the coarsest of baize table-covers, and the hardest of sheet-iron tea-trays, and offering in its decorative character no bad allegorical representation of Grandfather Smallweed's mind— seated in two black horsehair porter's chairs, one on each side of the fire-place, the superannuated Mr. and Mrs. Smallweed while away the rosy hours.†
Chpt 19-21
Definition:
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(uncouth) lacking refinement or cultivation or taste