uncouth

Example Sentences

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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

These days, “‘Housewives’ trip” is synonymous with the most outlandish, uncouth, highly compelling television that the reality genre has to offer.

From Salon • May 20, 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

It revived some of the campaign-era speculation that I was generally uncouth and lacking the standard elegance of a First Lady, and worried me somewhat, too, thinking I’d possibly distracted from Barack’s efforts abroad.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama