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The uncouth remark was out of place in polite society.uncouth = rude or insensitive
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The uncouth man's behavior at the dinner party was embarrassing to his guests.uncouth = rude or unpleasant
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Atticus's mouth, even, was half-open, an attitude he had once described as uncouth. (source)uncouth = crude (demonstrating a lack of refinement or proper decorum)
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"Shut it!" snarled an uncouth voice that Harry knew was that of the Carrow brother, Amycus, (source)uncouth = rude and unrefined
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Even Cooper in his own uncouth way. (source)uncouth = crude or unrefined
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Elsewise they will always see me as the uncouth barbarian who smashed through their gates, impaled their kin on spikes, and stole their wealth. (source)uncouth = crude (lacking refinement, manners, and good taste)
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Yet his time came, in the end, in the form of a little weazened man who spat broken English and many strange and uncouth exclamations which Buck could not understand. (source)uncouth = unrefined
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I am sure you must have been struck by his awkward look and abrupt manner, and the uncouthness of a voice which I heard to be wholly unmodulated as I stood here.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Had Phoebe been coarse in feature, shaped clumsily, of a harsh voice, and uncouthly mannered, she might have been rich with all good gifts, beneath this unfortunate exterior, and still, so long as she wore the guise of woman, she would have shocked Clifford, and depressed him by her lack of beauty.† (source)
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Meanwhile, the merchants and ship-masters, the spruce clerks and uncouth sailors, entered and departed; (source)uncouth = crude (lacking refinement and good manners)
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And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim.† (source)
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He found an endless excitement in looking at their faces and hearing them speak; they came in each with his peculiarity, some shuffling uncouthly, some with a little trip, others with heavy, slow tread, some shyly.† (source)
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He was an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in the secrets of his science. (source)uncouth = lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
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How could he,—so yellow as she was, so wrinkled, so sad of mien, with that odd uncouthness of a turban on her head, and that most perverse of scowls contorting her brow,—how could he love to gaze at her?† (source)
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It is uncouth to let it hang open like that.† (source)
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The two young men were the only talkers, but they, standing by the fire, talked over the too common neglect of the qualification, the total inattention to it, in the ordinary school-system for boys, the consequently natural, yet in some instances almost unnatural, degree of ignorance and uncouthness of men, of sensible and well-informed men, when suddenly called to the necessity of reading aloud, which had fallen within their notice, giving instances of blunders, and failures with their secondary causes, the want of management of the voice, of proper modulation and emphasis, of foresight and judgment, all proceeding from the first cause: want of early attention and habit;† (source)
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