couth

Example Sentences

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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

Lapp said, “Gerald G., accept our humble apologies, also our lack of couth; we will kibbutz, I mean kibitz, on the action no longer, we promise to keep it down to your dull roar.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols