UNCOUTH in a Sentence
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22 example sentences for UNCOUTH, such as:
1. He was a little wild, uncouth and proud.
2. He would become dreadful, hideous, and uncouth.
3. She may embarrass you with her uncouth behavior.
4. Most biographers portray Lincoln as an uncouth and ungainly young man.
5. He was an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in the secrets of his science.
2. He would become dreadful, hideous, and uncouth.
3. She may embarrass you with her uncouth behavior.
4. Most biographers portray Lincoln as an uncouth and ungainly young man.
5. He was an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in the secrets of his science.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of UNCOUTH
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uncouth
a. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 One sent forth the praises of Athelstane in a doleful panegyric; another, in a Saxon genealogical poem, rehearsed the uncouth and harsh names of his noble ancestry.
2 He was a little wild, uncouth and proud.
3 To many persons this Egdon was a place which had slipped out of its century generations ago, to intrude as an uncouth object into this.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
4 Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual smell of drink.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
5 When he reached the crest I saw the ragged uncouth figure outlined for an instant against the cold blue sky.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
6 He was an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in the secrets of his science.
7 Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again.
8 The pathway among the woods seemed wilder, more uncouth with its rude natural obstacles, and less trodden by the foot of man, than he remembered it on his outward journey.
9 He ate in a ravenous way that was very disagreeable, and all his actions were uncouth, noisy, and greedy.
10 From Icelandic, Dutch, and old English authorities, there might be quoted other lists of uncertain whales, blessed with all manner of uncouth names.
11 As he approached us, he began to make uncouth noises, and held up his hands to show us his fingers, which were webbed to the first knuckle, like a duck's foot.
12 Endeavoring, then, to collect his ideas, he prepared to perform that species of incantation, and those uncouth rites, under which the Indian conjurers are accustomed to conceal their ignorance and impotency.
13 Though not a vaunting and bloodily disposed Goliath," returned David, drawing a sling from beneath his parti-colored and uncouth attire, "I have not forgotten the example of the Jewish boy.
14 A violent babble of uncouth sounds burst out on the other side of the planks.
15 He would become dreadful, hideous, and uncouth.
Example Sentence:
1 Most biographers portray Lincoln as an uncouth and ungainly young man.
2 She may embarrass you with her uncouth behavior.