'Uncouthly' definitions:

Definition of 'uncouthly'

From: WordNet
adverb
In an uncouth manner; "uncouthly, he told stories that made everybody at the table wince"

Definition of 'Uncouthly'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Uncommon; rare; exquisite; elegant. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Harness . . . so uncouth and so rich. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Unfamiliar; strange; hence, mysterious; dreadful; also, odd; awkward; boorish; as, uncouth manners. "Uncouth in guise and gesture." --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
  • I am surprised with an uncouth fear. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Thus sang the uncouth swain. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: See Awkward. [1913 Webster] -- {Un*couth"ly}, adv. -- {Un*couth"ness}, n. [1913 Webster]

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