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Description: is a messy business. You can be uncouth but not couth. You can be ruthless, but good luck trying to show somebody that you have ruth unless you happen to be married to someone named Ruth. It's bad to be unkempt but impossible to be kempt, or sheveled as opposed to disheveled.

Lucy Powell

It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.

British Politician

Richard Elman

I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up.

American Novelist

Tanushree Dutta

I simply avoid at all cost people I think are not good for me. So it's disgusting when uncouth, uneducated, dirty, downmarket, classless, characterless, perverted, degraded abominations like Rakhi Sawant claim to ever be friends with me.

Indian Model

Robin Leach

People know I'll be sensational, not scandalous. There's a fine-line difference. Sensational means titillating the viewer. Scandalous means being condemned by the viewer for making unfair, uncouth revelations.

English Writer

Alex Horne

When I created 'Taskmaster,' it was never meant to be suitable for family Christmases. The host, Greg Davies, is a sweary giant, the comedians are often uncouth and the show was on late-night TV.

British Comedian

Ellen G. White

The ministers of Christ should possess refinement. All uncouth manners, attitudes and gestures should be discarded, and they should encourage in themselves humble dignity of bearing.

American Writer

Russell Baker

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

American Journalist

Joey Chestnut

There's nothing pretty about competitive eating. It might be uncouth, but it is fun, and it is lighthearted.

American Celebrity

Garet Garrett

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

Franklin Pierce Adams

Conveys disapproval or negativity about someone's behavior or manners.

Negative Nuance

Used to describe actions inappropriate in polite or formal social events.

Social Situations

What is uncouth in one culture may be acceptable in another.

Cultural Subjectivity

Can imply a lack of education or intellectual sophistication.

Perception of Intelligence

Often used in the context of appreciating art, literature, and music.

Art and Aesthetics

Not just what is said, but how it's said can be uncouth.

Connotations Beyond Words

Use to vividly describe awkward physical attributes or fashions.

Visual Descriptions

Describes actions or movements that lack grace or ease.

Awkwardness in Movement

Highlights something or someone that seems out of place.

Mismatched in Context

 is a messy business. You can be uncouth but not couth. You can be ruthless, but good luck trying to show somebody that you have ruth unless you happen to be married to someone named Ruth. It's bad to be unkempt but impossible to be kempt, or sheveled as opposed to disheveled.

Birth of a nickname -...

 and, of course, my heartbreak; listen to my sometimes catty, sometimes churlish, sometimes silly self being cruel, unforgiving, uncouth; listen, deeply, deeply ashamed, to the worst version of myself,

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 longlegs mouth form unlike other more uncouth creatures the daddy-longlegs choose her food thoroughly even if she doesn't outside her mouth she sucks up the aphid juices

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