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uncouthly

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un·couth  (n-kth)
adj.
1. Crude; unrefined.
2. Awkward or clumsy; ungraceful.
3. Archaic Foreign; unfamiliar.

[Middle English, unknown, strange, from Old English uncth : un-, not; see un-1 + cth, known; see gn- in Indo-European roots.]

un·couthly adv.
un·couthness n.
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Adv.1.uncouthlyuncouthly - in an uncouth manner; "uncouthly, he told stories that made everybody at the table wince"


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It could not have diminished their sufferings any to be so uncouthly represented.
Had Phoebe been coarse in feature, shaped clumsily, of a harsh voice, and uncouthly mannered, she might have been rich with all good gifts, beneath this unfortunate exterior, and still, so long as she wore the guise of woman, she would have shocked Clifford, and depressed him by her lack of beauty.
He found an endless excitement in looking at their faces and hearing them speak; they came in each with his peculiarity, some shuffling uncouthly, some with a little trip, others with heavy, slow tread, some shyly.
 
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