uncouthness

noun

as in boorishness

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  1. brutishness
  2. churlishness
  3. rusticity
  4. rowdiness
  5. indelicacy
  6. crudeness
  7. roughness
  8. crudity
Noun
  • Generations of agents, therefore, have had to walk a line between bookishness and brutishness.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • But the brutishness has merely relocated, to places far more dangerous.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
Definition of brutishness
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  • Apologies for any churlishness, but those in and around the club will be relieved to have removed an annoying factoid from Amorim’s 11-month tenure.
    — Carl Anka, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Definition of churlishness
Noun
  • The handloom process produces layered, tactile surfaces that celebrate rawness and rusticity.
    — Allison Hatfield, Dallas Morning News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • At the center of the ranch is a 5,800-square-foot lodge that combines classic Rocky Mountain rusticity with Old World European elegance.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2025
Definition of rusticity
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  • The disdain goes back decades and, as some Argentina fans evidently proved Tuesday, rowdiness does not require international provocation.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 15 July 2026
  • That’s how the game should be remembered, not for the rowdiness in the streets from people who use violence to express happiness.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026
Definition of rowdiness
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  • Trump added, seemingly referring to the indelicacy of directly attacking a war hero who is fighting brain cancer.
    — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
Definition of indelicacy
Noun
  • There’s some rudeness, aggressive conversations, and crudeness, but nothing too over the top.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 4 Aug. 2025
Definition of crudeness
Noun
  • For the designers, the logo represents the roughness and the beauty that coexist and define London.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 July 2026
  • Hayabusa2 also imaged asteroid Torifune using its Mid-Infrared Camera (TIR), which allows scientists to measure asteroids' surface temperatures, thermal inertia and surface roughness, according to JAXA.
    — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 6 July 2026
Definition of roughness
Noun
  • And thus the audience is stuck with this scenario, which complicates in intensity and with a linguistic relish that has its funny moments (for some, anyway), but also features a lot of crudity that really wrenches you away from the typical landscape of the classy, urban American farce.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Yet Burr never stoops to crudity.
    — Bob Strauss, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2026
Definition of crudity
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