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
Lapp said, “Gerald G., accept our humble apologies, also our lack of couth; we will kibbutz, I mean kibitz, on the action no longer, we promise to keep it down to your dull roar.”
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.