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UNCOUTH
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
Example:
the vulgar display of the newly rich
Synonyms:
coarse; common; rough-cut; uncouth; vulgar
Classified under:
Similar:
unrefined ((used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth)
Derivation:
uncouthness (inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor)
Context examples:
The sand-banks far out were spotted with uncouth crawling forms, huge turtles, strange saurians, and one great flat creature like a writhing, palpitating mat of black greasy leather, which flopped its way slowly to the lake.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Over him hung a form which I cannot find words to describe—gigantic in stature, yet uncouth and distorted in its proportions.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
They were hard and uncouth, some of them, I doubt not; and yet, seen through the golden haze of time, they all seem sweet and lovable.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She was too absorbed in striving to reconcile the stumbling, uncouth speech and its simplicity of thought with what she saw in his face.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Then, with a sunken head and a heavy heart, he plodded wearily down the other path, wroth with himself for the rude and uncouth tongue which had given offence where so little was intended.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in the secrets of his science.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The new-comer was a stout, square-built man, plainly and almost carelessly dressed, with an uncouth manner and a rolling gait.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was love that had worked the revolution in him, changing him from an uncouth sailor to a student and an artist; therefore, to him, the finest and greatest of the three, greater than learning and artistry, was love.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Her training warned her of peril and of wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring; while her instincts rang clarion-voiced through her being, impelling her to hurdle caste and place and gain to this traveller from another world, to this uncouth young fellow with lacerated hands and a line of raw red caused by the unaccustomed linen at his throat, who, all too evidently, was soiled and tainted by ungracious existence.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
