Both Uses of
uncouth
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Meanwhile, the merchants and ship-masters, the spruce clerks and uncouth sailors, entered and departed;
p. 23.7 *uncouth = crude (lacking refinement and good manners)
- The pathway among the woods seemed wilder, more uncouth with its rude natural obstacles, and less trodden by the foot of man, than he remembered it on his outward journey.
p. 202.0uncouth = unpleasant
Definition:
rude or unpleasant due to a lack of manners, refinement, or taste