Antonyms for uncouthly
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : uhn-kooth |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈkuθ |
Definition 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
- 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
Synonyms for uncouthly
- barbarously
- bluntly
- boorishly
- brazenly
- bunglingly
- carelessly
- clumsily
- coarsely
- contemptuously
- crassly
- crudely
- curtly
- discourteously
- disrespectfully
- fumblingly
- gawkily
- gracelessly
- harshly
- imprudently
- indecently
- indecorously
- inelegantly
- ineptly
- insolently
- loudly
- lumberingly
- roughly
- sassily
- sharply
- snootily
- stiffly
- tactlessly
- unabashedly
- unadroitly
- uncivilly
- uncouthly
- ungracefully
- ungraciously
- unskillfully
- vulgarly
- with difficulty
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