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    Use "uncouthness" in a sentence

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    uncouthness


    1. The course, which had meandered under Fishmael's erratic influence at night, was now set straight for the day, away from the City, away from the happy entrapment of culture and uncouthness, wealth and poverty


    2. she was treading the embarrassing waters of uncouthness


    3. The two young men were the only talkers, but they, standing by the fire, talked over the too common neglect of the qualification, the total inattention to it, in the ordinary school-system for boys, the consequently natural, yet in some instances almost unnatural, degree of ignorance and uncouthness of men, of sensible and well-informed men, when suddenly called to the necessity of reading aloud, which had fallen within their notice, giving instances of blunders, and failures with their secondary causes, the want of management of the voice, of proper modulation and emphasis, of foresight and judgment, all proceeding from the first cause: want of early attention and habit; and Fanny was listening again with great entertainment


    4. And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim


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    Synonyms for "uncouthness"

    boorishness uncouthness

    "uncouthness" definitions

    inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor