uncouth

Example Sentences

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If it’s uncouth to raise in public, I assure you: lots of people are talking about this privately, because it’s getting hard to ignore.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 2, 2026

First, however, let’s begin with Kevin McCarthy, who’s resorted to uncouth language as a last resort to his unsolvable problems.

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2023

"He has a very serious problem in that he talks too much," he says of the president's habit of making controversial, uncouth and homophobic statements.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2022

"It was then reported, that a mad woman was in the habit of disturbing the neighbours, by perambulating the church-yard and other walks, in strange and uncouth dresses," the magazine article added.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2022

“We are done with Eastwatch. We did not like it there. A queen should be mistress beneath her own roof. We found your Cotter Pyke to be an uncouth and unpleasant man, quarrelsome and niggardly.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin