uncouthly

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

But, I must uncouthly ask, at what price?

From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2022

Klaasje was very tiresome, ate uncouthly and sat beside Constance, who kept on gently reproving her and cut up her bread-and-butter for her as though she were a baby.

From Dr. Adriaan by Couperus, Louis

“On folio 392, in a comparatively modern hand, is rather uncouthly written ἐγράφη νικηφόρου βασιλεύοντος A. Z. What the initials A. Z. stand for I do not know.”

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

Assuredly it could not have been easy to find a fiction so uncouthly terrible as this in the hypochondria of Hamlet.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David

So the moorsmen, blessing her uncouthly for her fairness and kind words, went back with their furs and bows into their fastnesses.

From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford, Ford Madox