1
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
Bell, a Ritchie regular, offers an uncouth but equally menacing counterpoint to Brosnan, a mobster who isn’t pretending that he’s crawled out of the muck.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 28 Mar. 2025
Inept and uncouth, these working-class anti-heroes invaded the homes of the one percent and laid waste to them.
—Donald Liebenson, Vulture, 14 June 2024
Some authors paint the media as an intrusive, uncouth pack of wolves.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
Buteau’s special isn’t as brainy, brash or uncouth as others released this year, but there’s a sweetly molten core to her routines, a sense of genuine warmth.
—Melissa Kirsch, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 28 Mar. 2025
Inept and uncouth, these working-class anti-heroes invaded the homes of the one percent and laid waste to them.
—Donald Liebenson, Vulture, 14 June 2024
Some authors paint the media as an intrusive, uncouth pack of wolves.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
Buteau’s special isn’t as brainy, brash or uncouth as others released this year, but there’s a sweetly molten core to her routines, a sense of genuine warmth.
—Melissa Kirsch, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncouth
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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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While the boorish behavior of Twain’s shipmates is cataloged throughout (snapping off pieces of ancient monuments for souvenirs, for instance), his most flamboyant portrayal is a self-portrait.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2025
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One of them, a graduate student named Hailey, who had the kind of vulgar beauty of fecundity, duly fell pregnant.—
Yiyun Li,
New Yorker,
15 June 2025
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Dem rep's vulgar demand to ICE officers leads to calls to expel her from Congress MAJOR HEADLINES 'NEVER SEEN HER' – AOC, progressives ripped for ignoring 'Red Light district' as prostitution, filthy streets return.—
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FOXNews.com,
9 June 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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But beyond the crass remarks about Read, experts say less explosive messages about Proctor's early opinions of the investigation could be damning.—
Julia Bonavita , Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2025
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What keeps these series from coming off as crass is the genuine camaraderie that connects their characters and shelters them, to some extent, from the precariousness of their lives.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
22 May 2025
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And refusing to congratulate his SIL is just churlish.—
Stephanie Guerilus,
People.com,
21 June 2025
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An office that demands wisdom and restraint is now debased with churlish impulsivity, rambling incoherency and overt grift.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
11 May 2025
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And even if that feels rude by the standards of today, people were forced to answer her questions and answer to the things that the public wanted to know.—
Alex Jhamb Burns,
Vogue,
23 June 2025
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There are so many things that can be off or what if just the woman walks in and just is not attracted to the guy or the man is rude to the waiter.—
Steve Baltin,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025
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The rowdy responses of the classless crowd were intolerable.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
10 June 2025
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But, for not a single D to stand to applaud a boy's brave battle with cancer, or a man's admission to West Point, was a classless disgrace.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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Commercial or bulk matcha is often a dull yellowish or brown color, coarse in texture, and noticeably bitter.—
Devorah Lev-Tov,
Vogue,
20 June 2025
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The best conditioners for gray hair help with this shift by targeting brassiness and yellow undertones, dullness, and dry or coarse textures.—
Jessie Quinn,
Glamour,
11 June 2025
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“Uncouth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncouth. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.
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