couth
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“I still like the venom and passion that was in a lot of the old songs, but there is a level of disrespect and lack of couth that sometimes I don’t dig,” Palumbo says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
It used to be cute, though, to hear him compensate for his lack of polish and couth by using ridiculously florid language when a one-syllable response would do.
From Salon ● May 15, 2023
What could possibly be less couth – less Wimbledon – than seeing off all-comers with attitude, personality and style?
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2021
It viciously took him to task for being cosmopolitan and having political couth.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2017
We might joke about looking “kempt” or being "couth," but in fact the negatives have no opposite forms—they’re either obsolete rarities or whimsical inventions.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Among the couths there are seven poets of proven powers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the couths, even the inconsequent are competent.
From Time Magazine Archive
