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adjective

Uncouth adj.

Unknown. (Obs.) "This uncouth errand." "To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth."

Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant. (Obs.) "Harness... so uncouth and so rich."

Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners. "Uncouth in guise and gesture." "I am surprised with an uncouth fear." "Thus sang the uncouth swain."

Synonyms: See Awkward.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Uncouth" Quotes from Famous Books

... was helpful. Ralph could not help feeling grateful to her, the more so, perhaps, because he had not told her the truth about his state; and when they reached the gate again he wished to make some affectionate objection to her leaving him. But his affection took the rather uncouth form of expostulating with her about ...

— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf

... Millar, to whose father's house one of these High Flyers came, on this errand. This massacre was not aimed at the persecutors, but at the Poundtexts. As to their creed, Wodrow has an anecdote of one of his own elders, who told a poor woman with many children that "it would be an uncouth mercy" if they ...

— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... of such refreshments as my poor cave affords; and for your evening's entertainment I will relate the history of my life from my first landing in this desert island." He then called for Caliban to prepare some food, and set the cave in order; and the company were astonished at the uncouth form and savage appearance of this ugly monster, who (Prospero said) was the only attendant he ...

— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb

... young men struck the captain of the Spanish escort with astonishment. Bronzed to the darkest brown by the sun of the plains and by the hardships they had undergone, dressed in the skins of animals, and carrying weapons altogether uncouth and savage to the Spanish eye, he found it difficult to believe that these figures were those of ...

— Under Drake's Flag - A Tale of the Spanish Main • G. A. Henty

... work. It is true that in the trench they were in some measure protected from the storm. The lashings had been fixed on the brickwork under his careful superintendence; the men were on the point of hauling on the ropes, when a thing of monstrous size and uncouth shape glided silently into the opening of the trench, and came ...

— Round the World in Seven Days • Herbert Strang

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