Synonyms for uncouthly

Grammar : Adv

Spell : uhn-kooth

Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈkuθ

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Définition of uncouthly

Origin : Old English uncuð "unknown, uncertain, unfamiliar," from un- (1) "not" + cuð "known, well-known," past participle of cunnan "to know" (see can (v.)). Meaning "strange, crude, clumsy" is first recorded 1510s. The compound (and the thing it describes) widespread in IE languages, cf. Latin ignorantem, Old Norse ukuðr, Gothic unkunþs, Sanskrit ajnatah, Armenian ancanaut', Greek agnotos, Old Irish ingnad "unknown."

As in awkwardly : adv with difficulty
As in rudely : adv impolitely

Example sentences :

It could not have diminished their sufferings any to be so uncouthly represented.
Extract from : « The Innocents Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Up looms Umberto, uncouthly casting them one and all into the shade.
Extract from : « And Even Now » by Max Beerbohm

He experienced a momentary pang of shame that he should walk so uncouthly.
Extract from : « Martin Eden » by Jack London

It jerked itself forward, and rose slowly and uncouthly in the air.
Extract from : « A Voyage to Arcturus » by David Lindsay

It contained some lines of a very rugged doggerel, hardly even rhyming, written in a gross character, and most uncouthly spelt.
Extract from : « The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) » by Robert Louis Stevenson

It contained some lines of very rugged doggerel, hardly even rhyming, written in a gross character, and most uncouthly spelt.
Extract from : « The Black Arrow » by Robert Louis Stevenson

In very early art they are mostly symbolised, and sometimes oddly and uncouthly; and even so by Angelico da Fiesole.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 65, No. 400, February, 1849 » by Various

He worked slowly and uncouthly, but with the precision that was a part of his character, and made exact and strong stitches.
Extract from : « Love Me Little, Love Me Long » by Charles Reade

He was finding nothing to say to Rue Carew, or saying what 318 he said as crudely and uncouthly as any haymaker in Gayfield.
Extract from : « The Dark Star » by Robert W. Chambers

So the moorsmen, blessing her uncouthly for her fairness and kind words, went back with their furs and bows into their fastnesses.
Extract from : « The Fifth Queen Crowned » by Ford Madox Ford

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