Definition of "couth" []

• 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). (adjective)
• Refinement; sophistication: "The man has no couth” ( Los Angeles Times). (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "My word verification was "couth" which beats being uncouth."
• "I say show NO mercy, no "couth" (?), no restraint on obscenity."
• "The development of the main senses took place in OF., and is not free from obscurity (cf., however, couth and known)."