uncouth

uncouth
    adj 1: lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had
           coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that
           branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human
           being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy";
           "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar
           display of the newly rich" [syn: {coarse}, {common},
           {rough-cut}, {uncouth}, {vulgar}]
    

Uncouth \Un*couth"\ ([u^]n*k[=oo]th"), a. [OE. uncouth, AS.
   unc[=u][eth] unknown, strange: un- (see {Un-} not) +
   c[=u][eth] known, p. p. of cunnan to know. See {Can} to be
   able, and cf. {Unco}, {Unked}.]
   1. Unknown. [Obs.] "This uncouth errand." --Milton.
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            To leave the good that I had in hand,
            In hope of better that was uncouth.   --Spenser.
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   2. Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant. [Obs.]
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            Harness . . . so uncouth and so rich. --Chaucer.
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   3. Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also,
      odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners. "Uncouth in
      guise and gesture." --I. Taylor.
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            I am surprised with an uncouth fear.  --Shak.
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            Thus sang the uncouth swain.          --Milton.
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   Syn: See {Awkward}.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Un*couth"ly}, adv. --
        {Un*couth"ness}, n.
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138 Moby Thesaurus words for "uncouth":
      Doric, Gothic, Neanderthal, abandoned, all thumbs, animal, awkward,
      barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, bizarre, blunderheaded,
      blundering, boorish, broad, brutal, brutish, bumbling, bungling,
      butterfingered, cacophonous, careless, churlish, cloddish,
      clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, coarse, countrified,
      country-born, country-bred, crass, crude, cumbersome, curious,
      deserted, desolate, discourteous, disrespectful, doggerel,
      dysphemistic, earthy, eccentric, erratic, farmerish,
      fingers all thumbs, forsaken, frank, from the sticks, fumbling,
      gauche, gawkish, gawky, graceless, gross, gutter, ham-fisted,
      ham-handed, harsh, hayseed, heavy-handed, hick, hicky, hobnailed,
      hulking, hulky, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impermanent, impolite,
      improper, impure, in bad taste, inconcinnate, inconcinnous,
      incorrect, indecorous, inelegant, infelicitous, inurbane,
      left-hand, left-handed, loutish, low, lubberly, lumbering, lumpen,
      lumpish, maladroit, noncivilized, oafish, odd, oddball, outlandish,
      ponderous, primitive, quaint, queer, rank, raw, rough,
      rough-and-ready, rube, rude, rummy, savage, sloppy, solitary,
      stiff, tasteless, troglodytic, uncalled-for, uncivil, uncivilized,
      uncombed, uncourtly, uncultivated, uncultured, undignified,
      uneuphonious, unfelicitous, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unkempt,
      unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, untamed, unwieldy,
      up-country, vulgar, wild, yokel, yokelish