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as in boorish
having or showing crudely insensitive or impolite manners
will not tolerate any uncouth behavior, such as eating with one's mouth open
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as in vulgar
lacking in refinement or good taste
the movie's uncouth humor seemed to be purposely offensive
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Recent Examples of uncouth
Bell, a Ritchie regular, offers an uncouth but equally menacing counterpoint to Brosnan, a mobster who isn’t pretending that he’s crawled out of the muck.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 28 Mar. 2025
Inept and uncouth, these working-class anti-heroes invaded the homes of the one percent and laid waste to them.
—Donald Liebenson, Vulture, 14 June 2024
Some authors paint the media as an intrusive, uncouth pack of wolves.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
Buteau’s special isn’t as brainy, brash or uncouth as others released this year, but there’s a sweetly molten core to her routines, a sense of genuine warmth.
—Melissa Kirsch, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncouth
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His boorish behavior was condemned by others silently and did not affect the solemnity of the ceremony.—
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While the boorish behavior of Twain’s shipmates is cataloged throughout (snapping off pieces of ancient monuments for souvenirs, for instance), his most flamboyant portrayal is a self-portrait.—
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Nan’s rebellion was never loud or vulgar but always quietly confident and effortlessly elegant.—
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The comics were often dismissed as a vulgar form, but the bad joke of our superhero-movie culture is that most of it is a vulgarization of the comics.—
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This was like loutish English tourists turning up unannounced and urinating in the holy water.—
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And Gandolfini, who died of a heart attack in 2013 at age 51, was the show’s tempestuous soul, playing a loutish killer with a quick temper and sad eyes.—
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Brandi Glanville & Lisa Vanderpump (RHOBH) Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo: Kelsey McNeal/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images Lisa and Brandi were an odd fit from the start: Brandi, the crass newbie; Lisa Vanderpump, the grande dame of Beverly Hills.—
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Most Popular Most Popular Asking Eric: The parents refuse to cut their trip short despite their teen’s crisis Asking Eric: The parents refuse to cut their trip short despite their teen's crisis Dear Abby: Is there a way to tell the crass shirttail relations that they’re not invited?—
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And refusing to congratulate his SIL is just churlish.—
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An office that demands wisdom and restraint is now debased with churlish impulsivity, rambling incoherency and overt grift.—
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Most commenters support the original poster, writing that the aunt and uncle are the rude people in this situation.—
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Stand up to anyone who bullies you, and call people out who are rude or behaving badly.—
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Private ownership is eliminated with the goal of all goods being equally shared in a classless society.—
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For example, in Stalin’s communism, monism took the form of believing that the key is to establish a classless society — even if millions of people had to be killed to achieve that vision.—
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Washington reds once had a reputation for coarse tannins and high alcohol, largely due to a handful of wines that emulated the California styles popular over twenty years ago.—
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Worker ants have long legs and antennae and their bodies have numerous, long, coarse hairs.—
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“Uncouth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncouth. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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