All 9 Uses
uncouth
in
Of Human Bondage
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- He disliked the fisher folk, who were rough, uncouth, and went to chapel.†
Chpt 7-8 *
- He had a long, thin body and the scholar's stoop; his head was large and ugly; he had pale scanty hair and an earthy skin; his thin mouth and thin, long nose, and the great protuberance of his frontal bones, gave him an uncouth look.†
Chpt 25-26
- But Philip could not conceal from himself that the other clerks, ill-paid and uncouth, were more useful than himself.†
Chpt 37-38
- He hesitated, for he did not at that moment want to see anyone, and her uncouth way seemed out of place amid the happiness he felt around him; but he had divined her sensitiveness to affront, and since she had seen him thought it would be polite to speak to her.†
Chpt 41-42
- Philip saw that in her uncouth way she was offering him help.†
Chpt 41-42
- She was ugly and uncouth, and because he was deformed there was between them a certain sympathy.†
Chpt 45-46
- Still another, and he interested Philip because his uncouth manner and interjectional speech did not suggest that he was capable of any deep emotion, had felt himself stifle among the houses of London.†
Chpt 79-80
- 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.†
Chpt 81-82
- The builder was an uncouth little fellow with a rough, weather-beaten face and a long white scar on his forehead; he had large, stubbly hands.†
Chpt 113-114
Definitions:
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(1)
(uncouth) rude or unpleasant due to a lack of manners, refinement, or taste
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)