Associations to the word «Uncouth»

Wiktionary

UNCOUTH, adjective. (archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
UNCOUTH, adjective. Clumsy, awkward.
UNCOUTH, adjective. Unrefined, crude.

Dictionary definition

UNCOUTH, adjective. 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".

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates