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as in boorish
having or showing crudely insensitive or impolite manners
will not tolerate any uncouth behavior, such as eating with one's mouth open
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as in vulgar
lacking in refinement or good taste
the movie's uncouth humor seemed to be purposely offensive
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Recent Examples of uncouth
This includes uncouth habits like bad hygiene, inconsiderate acts like being self-centered or a violation of social norms.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Even at a cautious pace, the Escort feels raw and uncouth.
—Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 28 May 2025
Shawn wrestles without any grace here, his normal perfection replaced by him furiously trying to prevent the inevitable passing of the torch moment to Steve Austin, who himself is naturally uncouth in the ring.
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s wheelchair was famously hidden from the public, though his ailment was not necessarily a secret, just considered uncouth to talk about.
—Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2025
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Even at a cautious pace, the Escort feels raw and uncouth.
—Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 28 May 2025
Shawn wrestles without any grace here, his normal perfection replaced by him furiously trying to prevent the inevitable passing of the torch moment to Steve Austin, who himself is naturally uncouth in the ring.
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s wheelchair was famously hidden from the public, though his ailment was not necessarily a secret, just considered uncouth to talk about.
—Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncouth
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Avoid boorish behavior People from many different cultures don’t seem to know how to travel, but Americans in particular have a reputation across the globe for being pushy and loud people.—
Jenny Peters,
Oc Register,
4 Aug. 2025
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His boorish behavior was condemned by others silently and did not affect the solemnity of the ceremony.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
10 June 2025
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Her choice to respond by telling me to 'shut the f*** up' and to 'calm my p*****' was vulgar, dismissive and escalated the issue entirely.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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As deadly wildfires raged across Southern California in January, a Los Angeles city official lamented to the city council and others how they were forced to listen to hateful, vulgar language from some members of the public.—
BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA Today,
13 Aug. 2025
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This was like loutish English tourists turning up unannounced and urinating in the holy water.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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And Gandolfini, who died of a heart attack in 2013 at age 51, was the show’s tempestuous soul, playing a loutish killer with a quick temper and sad eyes.—
Chris Vognar,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Liverpool fans know how hurtful crass chants can be.—
Simon Hughes,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
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The tone has been combative, crass, and what’s been defended as fighting fire with fire.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Aug. 2025
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The pure of heart among you may recoil at the notion that anyone would sow brutish chaos, hurt vulnerable people and throw any semblance of democracy under the bus for a churlish, vicious distraction.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
14 Aug. 2025
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Chinese anger was displayed again in the churlish treatment of visiting Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman in July when, apart from other indignities, the Chinese Foreign Ministry publicly released its list of demands to Washington while her meeting was still underway.—
Danny Russel,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Nov. 2021
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Fox News host Dana Perino, a former White House press secretary, called out how rude the governor’s messages tended to be.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
24 Aug. 2025
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The Russian military faced a rude surprise on Ukrainian battlefields in part because in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, professionalism is secondary to politics.—
David French,
Mercury News,
20 Aug. 2025
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Private ownership is eliminated with the goal of all goods being equally shared in a classless society.—
Marley Malenfant,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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For example, in Stalin’s communism, monism took the form of believing that the key is to establish a classless society — even if millions of people had to be killed to achieve that vision.—
Sigal Samuel,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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Fishing licenses for trout and coarse fishing were available for a one-day period at a cost of $9.91, and the Environment Agency stressed that everyone who fished needed a license to support river and lake conservation and angling activities.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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The razor, designed in Finland, also has Swedish specialty steel blades tuned sharper for the coarse leg and body hair of a man.—
Lisa Jhung,
Outside,
9 Aug. 2025
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“Uncouth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncouth. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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