How to Use uncouth in a Sentence

uncouth

adjective
  • People thought he was uncouth and uncivilized.
  • Yes, social norms would say that email is an uncouth way to dump someone.
    — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • At the very least, this tweet is uncouth by business standards.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 13 May 2022
  • This is no silky Maranello V-12; the noise is raw and uncouth.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Some authors paint the media as an intrusive, uncouth pack of wolves.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
  • To even suggest that not all societies wanted peace was seen as vulgar and uncouth.
    — Uri Kurlianchik, National Review, 25 Feb. 2025
  • People with perfect manners can be perfect villains, and the uncouth can have hearts of gold.
    — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Reacher, the character, is lumbering and uncouth but his heart is in the right place.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • In Forman’s film, the most uncouth thing Mozart did was fart at the end of a performance.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 May 2026
  • And any expression otherwise is so taboo or deemed uncouth, and we aren’t allowed to talk about it in our art and media.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 14 May 2026
  • 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
  • Every unflattering photo and uncouth inside joke will come to light.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Could this uncouth stranger be the inspiration for her dapper character?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Those songs both ended with squalls of noise, hinting at Bash’s interest in more uncouth arrangements.
    — Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The societal urge to veer away from anything deemed uncouth or explicit was so strong that even now-banal words like leg and trouserwere seen as taboo.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2023
  • Arrogant and uncouth, the Shady King's ruling splits the province in two, leaving the land in a state of chaos.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • The fabled avenger trains an uncouth protege to drive a Spanish tyrant out of California once and for all.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The history of using unclaimed bodies in medical training is long and, at times, uncouth.
    — Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • There’s an incorrect notion that talking about money or promotions is uncouth.
    — Byscott Galloway, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Many protesters were uncouth, drunk, and aggressive, taunting the masked and refusing to wear masks in stores and restaurants.
    — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 17 June 2024
  • But most of the women shunned their former friend, viewing his actions as uncouth in an era when discretion was the byword of elite society.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • One time, my wife and I were seated at a hibachi table with a very strange and uncouth man, his date and her two uncomfortable tween daughters.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Some audiences saw this as a warning, linking the societal shifts and movements of people aligned with the left as dangerous and uncouth.
    — Jude Reid, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Trump's uncouth behavior barely rates a headline anymore, so frequent are the examples.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Although some Volvos can exhibit a sharp, flinty ride, our test car's air springs helped lend it a comfortable comportment that never felt uncouth.
    — Annie White, Car and Driver, 16 July 2021
  • Several critics blamed the uncouth crowd in attendance; others wrote it off as lighthearted amusement.
    — Adam Gustafson, Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2017
  • These people could not possibly be bothered to acknowledge anything as uncouth as Christmas.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The diesel provides torque-rich thrust and decent fuel economy but at the expense of some shaking on startup and uncouth vibration at higher revs.
    — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 1 June 2017
  • And part of the problem is McCarthy, whose vulgar, uncouth character doesn’t have that many dimensions.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 May 2024

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