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uncouth

[uhn-kooth] / ʌnˈkuθ /


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If it’s uncouth to raise in public, I assure you: lots of people are talking about this privately, because it’s getting hard to ignore.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 2, 2026

Playing on his uncouth, reality-TV rep, he painted himself as a truth-teller at campaign rallies across America.

From Salon Dec. 9, 2025

First, however, let’s begin with Kevin McCarthy, who’s resorted to uncouth language as a last resort to his unsolvable problems.

From Slate Sep. 16, 2023

"He has a very serious problem in that he talks too much," he says of the president's habit of making controversial, uncouth and homophobic statements.

From BBC Oct. 29, 2022

“We are done with Eastwatch. We did not like it there. A queen should be mistress beneath her own roof. We found your Cotter Pyke to be an uncouth and unpleasant man, quarrelsome and niggardly.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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