Uncouth meaning

Adjective: uncouth

Pronunciation: (ún’kooth)

Uncouth meaning:

1. Lacking refinement, good manners, cultivation or taste.
2. Wild or remote place.

Synonyms: coarse, boorish, vulgar, loutish

Quotations: Dante Alighieri – Uncouth tongues, horrible shrieking of despair, shrill and faint voices, cries of pain and rage, And, with it all, smiting of hands, were there, making a tumult, nothing could assuage, to swirl in the air that knows not day or night, like sand within the whirlwind’s eddying cage.

Edmund Burke – 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.

James Russell Lowell – New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth, they must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Guru Nanak – Let him not dance, nor sing, nor play musical instruments, nor slap, his limbs, nor grind his teeth, nor let him make uncouth noises, though he is in a passion.

Thomas Walsingham – For who would ever have believed that such rustics, and most inferior ones at that, would dare not in crowds but individually to enter the chamber of the king and of his mother with their filthy sticks; and undeterred by any of the soldiers, to stroke and lay their uncouth and sordid hands on the beards of several most noble knights.

Sample sentences:

1. Through the palpable obscure find out his uncouth way.
2. Too much truth is uncouth.
3. Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
4. 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.
5. It’s become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and labour achievement even less so. And it’s positively uncouth to be proud of something that this labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I’m really proud of the NHS.
6. Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
7. 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.
8. Simpson, the student of divinity, it was who arranged his conclusions probably with the best, though not most scientific, appearance of order. Out there, in the heart of un-reclaimed wilderness, they had surely witnessed something crudely and essentially primitive. Something that had survived somehow the advance of humanity had emerged terrifically, betraying a scale of life monstrous and immature. He envisaged it rather as a glimpse into prehistoric ages, when superstitions, gigantic and uncouth, still oppressed the hearts of men.
9. All good things must wait. There are yokels out there who think that if they touch a woman’s behind and she doesn’t complain, they’ve hooked her. Amateurs. The female heart is a labyrinth of subtleties, too challenging for the uncouth mind of the male racketeer. If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.
10. The next day it might be badly polished shoes, then uncouth language, showing off and impoliteness. Before one knows it, the rot of disharmony would start to dismantle everything that we know and cherish.
11. The hundred year old man had never let himself be irritated by people, even when there was a good reason to be, and he was not annoyed by the uncouth manner of this youth.
12. I know of an uncouth region whose librarians repudiate the vain and superstitious custom of finding a meaning in books and equate it with that of finding a meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines of one’s palm. They admit that the inventors of this writing imitated the twenty five natural symbols, but maintain that this application is accidental and that the books signify nothing in themselves. This dictum, we shall see, is not entirely fallacious.
13. The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
14. On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.
15. How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?