Word: uncouth
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...voice may be loud above the crowd and my words just a bit uncouth...
...right of any individual to be an expressionist, distortionalist or eggbeater-ist-to trickle, sling or spray paint. If these people find happiness, well and good. There may be a revolution in the art world, but there are others who rebel against being cultured, and wish to remain uncouth and unartistic...
...literal description from the uncouth men the murderers must have been. The next line is a piece of cruel humour that must have struck terror into the young boy's heart as he realized his fate...
India's Nehru, said a newsman, had declared that Americans are "uncouth." Did he agree? U Nu dissented gently: "I have never been slapped on the back before by anyone in Burma except my children," he conceded, "but if I was sometimes treated with unseemly familiarity by backslapping Americans, I soon realized that it was not rudeness but friendliness that prompted their action...
...lovers' mental fig leaves so firmly in place that they sin only in their minds. To a love affair which proves to be as innocuous as Pablum, Author Shapiro adds some government-issue characters from the standard stockpile of all war novels. There is the hero's uncouth, hell-for-leather pal who "buys it" on Dday. There is the bullet-spitting ex-auto salesman, bucking for general, who comes drunkenly apart at the seams once he gets a briefing on the German fortifications in his attack sector. There are camp followers, goldbricks and, for a touch...