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couth

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couth  (kth)
adj.
Marked by or possessing a high degree of sophistication; refined: "Many picnics manage without this sophistication, but we like to be couth and feel that the delicacies of gracious living enhance the chances" (John Gould).
n.
Refinement; sophistication: "The man has no couth" (Los Angeles Times).
[Back-formation from uncouth.]
couth [kuːθ]
adj
1. Facetious refined
2. Archaic familiar; known
[Old English cūth known, past participle of cunnan to know; sense 1, back formation from uncouth]
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Adj.1.couth - (used facetiously) refined
refined - (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
Translations
couth [kuːθ] N (US) → buenos modales mpl
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