couth

Example Sentences

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“I still like the venom and passion that was in a lot of the old songs, but there is a level of disrespect and lack of couth that sometimes I don’t dig,” Palumbo says.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2023

It used to be cute, though, to hear him compensate for his lack of polish and couth by using ridiculously florid language when a one-syllable response would do.

From Salon • May 15, 2023

What could possibly be less couth – less Wimbledon – than seeing off all-comers with attitude, personality and style?

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2021

It viciously took him to task for being cosmopolitan and having political couth.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2017

We might joke about looking “kempt” or being "couth," but in fact the negatives have no opposite forms—they’re either obsolete rarities or whimsical inventions.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner