How to Use uncouth in a Sentence

uncouth

adjective

• People thought he was uncouth and uncivilized.
• It’s the sort of wine that can feel feral and uncouth — in a good way.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• At the very least, this tweet is uncouth by business standards.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 13 May 2022
• Arrogant and uncouth, the Shady King's ruling splits the province in two, leaving the land in a state of chaos.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 11 Aug. 2020
• Yes, social norms would say that email is an uncouth way to dump someone.
  — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• She’s an uncouth zoomer virtuoso who trained herself on YouTube and is too savvy to be used and abused.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 14 Oct. 2022
• Reacher, the character, is lumbering and uncouth but his heart is in the right place.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2022
• People with perfect manners can be perfect villains, and the uncouth can have hearts of gold.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• The fabled avenger trains an uncouth protege to drive a Spanish tyrant out of California once and for all.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• One time, my wife and I were seated at a hibachi table with a very strange and uncouth man, his date and her two uncomfortable tween daughters.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
• The societal urge to veer away from anything deemed uncouth or explicit was so strong that even now-banal words like leg and trouserwere seen as taboo.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2023
• And part of the problem is McCarthy, whose vulgar, uncouth character doesn’t have that many dimensions.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
• But most of the women shunned their former friend, viewing his actions as uncouth in an era when discretion was the byword of elite society.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
• Fluent in Japanese and determined not to stick out as the uncouth American, Jake keeps his nose to the ground and immerses himself in the city’s culture.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2022
• When it was published, in 1949, his level of disclosure was still considered uncouth, and Gunther knew it.
  — Andrew Aoyama, The Atlantic, 3 June 2022
• Lonely singles on the wedding circuit, a 1930s bank robber on the run and an uncouth millennial adrift in Brooklyn.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2019
• The Tronsmart Onyx Ace Pro earbuds are amazing value for money and produce a sound that’s big and bold but never uncouth or unruly.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 4 June 2022
• As with all dark prophecies, warnings about A.I. are unsettling, uncouth, and quite possibly wrong.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• Although some Volvos can exhibit a sharp, flinty ride, our test car's air springs helped lend it a comfortable comportment that never felt uncouth.
  — Annie White, Car and Driver, 16 July 2021
• The history of using unclaimed bodies in medical training is long and, at times, uncouth.
  — Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
• The Atlas also has a smooth and steady ride on the highway, but broken pavement revealed the suspension's uncouth response to harsh impacts as well as the cabin's lack of noise isolation.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 15 May 2020
• The diesel provides torque-rich thrust and decent fuel economy but at the expense of some shaking on startup and uncouth vibration at higher revs.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 1 June 2017
• The notion, like the uncouth, wispy-haired towhead himself, was an easy mark for Bennett, who took aim following Greeley’s sermon on the coverage of the New Jersey murder.
  — James M. Lundberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2020
• Could this uncouth stranger be the inspiration for her dapper character?
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
• Before long, spitting in public spaces came to be considered uncouth, and swigging from shared bottles was frowned upon as well.
  — Katherine A. Foss, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2020
• The water tankers embody the market’s brawny, uncouth response to Bangalore’s public failure.
  — Samanth Subramanian, WIRED, 2 May 2017
• Janelle dismisses the iffy new employee as an uncouth hayseed, but Emma Messenger plays Lorrie with a feline (as in big cat) watchfulness from the get-go.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 16 Jan. 2020
• Even Latter-day Saints who turned out to hear Pence this past week acknowledged they were disappointed in Trump’s infidelity or uncouth language.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• The Resistance is the Mob, and Mr. Trump represents the bracingly uncouth primacy of the earlier republic.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2018
• Where her husband was brash and often uncouth, Ms. Trump came across to the city’s moneyed elite as charming and sophisticated, opening doors to rarefied social circles that Mr. Trump could then barrel through.
  — New York Times, 14 July 2022

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024