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Uncouthly

Uncouth \Un*couth"\, a. [OE. uncouth, AS. unc?? unknown, strange: un- (see Un- not) + c?? known, p. p. of cunnan to know. See Can to be able, and cf. Unco, Unked.]

  1. Unknown. [Obs.] ``This uncouth errand.''
    --Milton.

    To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth.
    --Spenser.

  2. Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant. [Obs.]

    Harness . . . so uncouth and so rish.
    --Chaucer.

  3. Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners. ``Uncouth in guise and gesture.''
    --I. Taylor.

    I am surprised with an uncouth fear.
    --Shak.

    Thus sang the uncouth swain.
    --Milton.

    Syn: See Awkward. [1913 Webster] -- Un*couth"ly, adv. -- Un*couth"ness, n.

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uncouthly

adv. In an uncouth manner.

WordNet
uncouthly

adv. in an uncouth manner; "uncouthly, he told stories that made everybody at the table wince"

Usage examples of "uncouthly".

Upon such an instrument did the heavenly maid beguile the time when she was yet uncouthly young--at the hoydenish age when men also cajoled her with clicking sticks and the beating of hollow logs, and music was but a variety of noise.

ANGEL II Ere the first fruit thereof grow audible, Holding as hapless his dream of good guardianship, Jestingly, earnestly, shouting it serviceless, Tardy, inept, and uncouthly designed.

Here was a quaint stone horse-mill, a stable, or a barn set uncouthly on the street.