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uncouth

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1. uncouth - Adjective

2. uncouth - Adjective Satellite

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Unknown.

Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant.

Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. Edmund Burke

The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you. Justin Timberlake

It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story "The Great Orley Farm Case." But who would ask for the ninth number of a serial work burthened with so very uncouth an appellation? Thence, and therefore, - Orley Farm. Anthony Trollope

Too much truth is uncouth. Franklin Pierce Adams

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing. Ellen G. White

Harsh words, though pertinent, uncouth appear: None please the fancy, who offend the ear. Samuel Garth

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