Uncouth

Well, you said you wanted to appear uncouth, and part of being uncouth is being like a rube, or 'stupid'. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What’s uncouth is that pell-mell deployment of punctuation, Paul. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Poland; as a principle, we hated Napoleon, though he had neither act nor part in the doings of the democrats; and the sea-songs of Dibdin, which our youth _now_ would call uncouth and ungraceful rhymes, were key-notes to public feeling; the English of that time were thoroughly ❋ Various (N/A)

And that latter saying is true, though it must be remembered that Hallam wrote in the period when no English was recognized by literary people except that of the upper level, when they did not know that these so-called uncouth phrases were to return to common use. ❋ Unknown (1912)

Infidels must not be allowed to coin uncouth meanings for words, different from the known usage of the English tongue, for which Webster is undeniable authority. ❋ Robert Patterson (1857)

He, being every day alarmed at the prospect of a successor, addressed himself to the task of conciliating Valens, who was of a rustic and rather simple character, by tickling him with all kinds of disguised flattery and caresses, calling his uncouth language and rude expressions "flowers of Ciceronian eloquence." ❋ Ammianus Marcellinus (1851)

I am not without regard for the Merriam-Webster dictionary, but my advice to those who do not want to be regarded as anything from uneducated to uncouth is to stick with the unadorned ❋ Unknown (2008)

Build on facts, not some silly argument about who's "uncouth". ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Possibly some of us have been doing independent research into the state of health care financing and US policy since the first Bush was in office, and have been able to draw our own conclusions about Moore's information not based on his appearance or "uncouth" behavior? ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

How "uncouth", hey? sometimes I even get a hotdog. ❋ Withkerth (2004)

This picture, mamma says, was an excellent likeness of him when he was twenty-eight years old; and the biographers who are so prone to describe him in his younger days as having been "uncouth" and "awkward," would be, I think, much startled if they could see it. ❋ Cecilia Pauline Cleveland (N/A)

Florence was the one exception on the Atwater side: she was far, far from thinking or speaking of Noble Dill in that way, although, until she looked up "uncouth" in Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, she had not found suitable means to describe him. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)

Perhaps he thinks I'm frivolous and "uncouth," -- as Nora sometimes says I am. ❋ Barbara Yechton (1901)

But a person to-day is not justified in using "uncouth" for "unknown." ❋ Unknown (1899)

"Every kind of uncouth roughness [toutes les rudesses sauvages] inspired him with aversion," says Liszt. ❋ Niecks, Frederick (1888)

They seemed to imagine him to be a kind of uncouth monster, possibly the slave of this radiant being which had come so strangely from somewhere beyond the cloud-veil. ❋ George Chetwynd Griffith (1881)

There were groups of rangers in every kind of uncouth garb. ❋ Unknown (1835)

The appearance of our troop was suited to the country; stretching along in a line of upward of half a mile in length, winding among brakes and bushes, and up and down in the defiles of the hills, the men in every kind of uncouth garb, with long rifles on their shoulders, and mounted on horses of every color. ❋ Unknown (1835)

Akebono, the behemoth from Samoa, provided the perfect foil for Takanohana, an "uncouth" (that was the image portrayed) wrestler who kept things exciting and made for tournament drama time after time. ❋ Geoff Dean (2010)

He described the present leaders as "uncouth", adding: "Albert Luthuli must be turning in his grave." ❋ Unknown (2010)

- What's "uncouth"? - It means "[bad] mannered" - *[BURP]* - [Exactly]! ❋ Morozoff7734 (2014)

Look at him over there hes sratching himself while [eating] with his [hands] how uncouth where does he think he is [Mcdonalds] ? ❋ Super Cheese Monkey (2004)

The uncouth mineralds of [the world]. ❋ Larstait (2003)

You really don't [need] an [example] for 'uncouth' ❋ Alex's Couth Friend (2005)

That bitch is [uncouth] [sleeping with] everybody everywhere. It's so uncouth of her to give her [cootaloo] to anybody. ❋ Cootaloo Queen (2017)

"Sally [stop farting]. Such [uncouth] behaviour!" exclaimed [Sheldon]. ❋ Theruk (2016)

That [uncouth] just [spoiled] [battle] of winterfell for me. ❋ Rupkotha (2019)

An [uncouth] gourmands is someone who believes that anything could be stuffed between two slices of bread or rolled up into a [tortilla]. People who are not afraid of [getting messy] and sometimes wait until they something in their mouths to talk. "Stop being an uncouth gourmand" ❋ Josie-UG (2010)

[Marcus] is an Uncouth Gorilla ❋ JoGloOfficial (2019)

That bitch is [uncouth] [sleeping with] everybody everywhere. It's so uncouth of her to give her [cootaloo] to anybody. ❋ Jckethy (2022)