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How to use uncouth in a sentence

14 example sentences · adjective

Uncouth means unfamiliar, strange, foreign. Example: “I don't want to associate with uncouth people.”

Examples of uncouth by meaning

adjectiveUnrefined, crude.

  • I don't want to associate with uncouth people.
  • If Yule found it delightful, why did Kipling find it uncouth?2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27...
  • “I don’t think it’s uncouth to talk about it.2021 May 10, Ian Prasad Philbrick, quoting Brian Fallon, “‘We May Not Have a Full Two Years’: Democrats’ Plans Hinge on Good Health”, in...

More sentences with uncouth

  • An uncouth flourmonger had disclosed some interesting things about a visiting Frenchman.1998, Margaret Miles, chapter 10, in A Wicked Way to Burn, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 99. From the entry flourmonger
  • All violent emotions, like uncouth nature, have become stylized, symbolized, daintified.1960, Arthur Koestler, The Lotus and the Robot, page 195. From the entry daintified
  • My mother was doing the unnervingly uncouth Asian squat—a deep, flamboyant squat, feet flat, weight fully on heels.2020, Lan Cao, Harlan Margaret Van Cao, Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, An American Daughter, New York, NY: Viking, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry Asian squat
  • Uncouth threw a Flamestrike spell at me, while Arnold stole all of my Recall spells and then bashed me.1995, Rawn Shah, Jim Romine, “Stories and Virtual Occurrences”, in Playing Muds on the Internet, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, part I…. From the entry flamestrike
  • He pronounced a string of uncouth vocables.1925, John Buchan, The House of the Four Winds. From the entry vocable
  • This is called by the rather uncouth name of “Romanised.”1912, Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil, chapter 10, in Changing China,, New York: D. Appleton, page 132. From the entry romanize
  • Discussions of the word are littered with quotes from the Canadian comedy “Letterkenny,” whose rural Ontario characters are plagued by uncouth “degens from upcountry.”2026 July 9, Nitsuh Abebe, “Has There Ever Been a Better Time to Be a ‘Degenerate’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry degen
  • His musical sound with a combo of three is uncouth, matching to a great extent the lyric content of his nonsensical songs.2012, Thomas Hauser, Elvis and Ali, →ISBN. From the entry showgoer
  • To the right of the Bay immediately behind the reef, rose a pair of uncouth cone-like hills, their heads bonneted in lowering clouds.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck. From the entry bonneted
  • In the earlier chapters uncouth proper names are reduced to a minimum, but the Index refers by name to specific places and persons only generally mentioned in the earlier pages.1908, Edward Harper Parker, Ancient China Simplified, London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., →OCLC, page ix. From the entry differentiate
  • Yet his time came, in the end, in the form of a little weazened man who spat broken English and many strange and uncouth exclamations which Buck could not understand.1903 July, Jack London, “Into the Primitive”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co.…. From the entry weazened

Meaning of uncouth

  1. adjective Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
  2. adjective Clumsy, awkward.
  3. adjective Unrefined, crude.

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Questions about uncouth in a sentence

How do you use uncouth in a sentence?
Uncouth is used as an adjective. For example: “I don't want to associate with uncouth people.”
What is a short sentence with uncouth?
“He pronounced a string of uncouth vocables.”
What does uncouth mean?
Uncouth means unfamiliar, strange, foreign.

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