Definition of "uncouth" []

• Crude; unrefined. (adjective)
• Awkward or clumsy; ungraceful. (adjective)
• Archaic Foreign; unfamiliar. (adjective)

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.

• "Well, you said you wanted to appear uncouth, and part of being uncouth is being like a rube, or 'stupid'."
• "What’s uncouth is that pell-mell deployment of punctuation, Paul."
• "Poland; as a principle, we hated Napoleon, though he had neither act nor part in the doings of the democrats; and the sea-songs of Dibdin, which our youth _now_ would call uncouth and ungraceful rhymes, were key-notes to public feeling; the English of that time were thoroughly"