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Recent Examples of uncouth President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s wheelchair was famously hidden from the public, though his ailment was not necessarily a secret, just considered uncouth to talk about. Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2025 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. 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 See All Example Sentences for uncouth
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncouth
Adjective
  • His boorish behavior was condemned by others silently and did not affect the solemnity of the ceremony.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 10 June 2025
  • 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.
    Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • By The Athletic’s count, over nine innings during the Yankees’ 6-2 win over the Mets, those fans aimed the same vulgar chant at Soto a whopping 38 times.
    Will Sammon, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • Because at the time, Madonna was seen as this controversial and sort of vulgar character.
    Terry Gross, NPR, 17 July 2025
Adjective
  • This was like loutish English tourists turning up unannounced and urinating in the holy water.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • 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.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • After a game in January where Luna played through a broken nose and registered an assist despite being elbowed in the face by a player from Costa Rica, Pochettino praised his young midfielder with a memorably crass description.
    Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 16 June 2025
  • Swearing and vulgarity aren’t just crass or abusive.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 15 June 2025
Adjective
  • And refusing to congratulate his SIL is just churlish.
    Stephanie Guerilus, People.com, 21 June 2025
  • An office that demands wisdom and restraint is now debased with churlish impulsivity, rambling incoherency and overt grift.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 May 2025
Adjective
  • Some posed for photos, others made rude gestures, and many simply stared.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 27 July 2025
  • The movie’s off-color humor wouldn’t fly today, but its rebellious spirit remains hilariously defiant — a refreshingly rude retort to the niceties of family films and their cringey feel-good messages.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • Private ownership is eliminated with the goal of all goods being equally shared in a classless society.
    Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • 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.
    Sigal Samuel, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Adjective
  • With Bill Murray killing as a preening champion, this coarse, dumb, hilarious film is primo Farrelly brothers during their golden age that, unfairly, got slept on at the time.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 25 July 2025
  • Gordon is not an especially confessional writer, but his voice, which at times stretches into a coarse falsetto, contains enormous amounts of emotion.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 21 July 2025

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“Uncouth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncouth. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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