uncouthness
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Seidel began his career in the early sixties, the era of confessional poetry, but he had nothing except his own perceived uncouthness to confess.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016
“Very mature, John,” he mutters to himself in despair at his own uncouthness as she stalks off.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2015
But uncouthness turns out to have its virtues.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2015
Bastien-Lepage, whom those who envied him affected to regard as dedicated wholly to the reproduction of rustic uncouthness, had no equal in catching the radiance of feminine charms, even in their subtlest manifestations.
From Bastien Lepage by Fr. Crastre
He simply kept telling it over again in the excitement of the conversation, meaning to explain to his listeners what a remarkable fellow the smith was, in spite of his uncouthness.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various
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