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

Because of the class associations, mullets were considered uncouth and undesirable for most of my lifetime.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022

That visit will go down in history as one of the most awkward, uncouth public appearances by a world leader in modern memory.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2022

It revived some of the campaign-era speculation that I was generally uncouth and lacking the standard elegance of a First Lady, and worried me somewhat, too, thinking I’d possibly distracted from Barack’s efforts abroad.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama