uncouthlyadj.
/ʌnˈkuːθli/, /ʌŋˈkuːθli/, U.S. /ˌənˈkuθli/ Awkward.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward
stubblea1300
lubber?1515
awkward1530
unwieldy1530
lubberlike1572
unwieldsome1579
lubberly1580
looby1582
wieldy1588
clumsy1597
ungainly1611
unqueme1611
untowardly1611
clouter-likea1624
hip-shot1642
loobish1648
loobily1655
bumble-arsed1661
clouterly1675
lubbard1679
fumbling1681
sinistrousa1682
maladroit1685
shammockinga1704
ungain1710
splay-footed1716
gawky1759
hobbledehoyish1812
uncouthly1821
nunting1836
shammocky1841
numb1854
awkwardish1860
slummocky?1861
numb-footed1867
gawkish1876
flat-footed1899
brontosaurian1909
shamblya1937
slew-foot1945
ham-footed1960
klutzy1961
dorkus1979
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 19 A more uncouthly lout was hardly seen Beneath the shroud of ignorance than he.
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uncouthlyadv.
/ʌnˈkuːθli/, /ʌŋˈkuːθli/, U.S. /ˌənˈkuθli/ In a strange, unfamiliar, or uncouth manner.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [adverb] > in a strange manner
uncouthlyc900
alangely1440
strangely1533
outlandishlikea1568
strangea1616
foreignly1654
unco-like1842
c900 Laws K. Ælfred (Liebermann) c. 47 Þam elðeodegan & utancumenan ne læt ðu no uncuðlice wið hine.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 14341 Þatt he spacc till hiss moderr þær. Þuss unncuþliȝ wiþþ worde.
?a1366 Romaunt Rose 584 She hadde no thought..but if it were oonly To graythe hir wel and vncouthly.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4818 Cuth þai wit him na kything tak, And vncuthli to þam he spak.
1423 Kingis Quair ix Is non estate nor age Ensured, more the prince nor than the page: So vncouthly hir werdes sche deuidith.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 511/1 Vncowthly, extranee.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 396 Out throw the horne ilkone that tyme tha spak Richt vncouthlie, and with sic awfull sound.
1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent v. i. H iij What Charnel has been rifl'd for these Bones? Fye! this is Pageantry; they look uncouthly.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 276 The shadow..Dancing uncouthly to the quiv'ring flame.
a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) Portrait in Wks. (1821) II. 4 She..Not stiff with prudence, nor uncouthly wild.
1834 J. Foster Ess. Evils Pop. Ignorance (ed. 3) 246 These are still further and most uncouthly confounded by the admixture of the ancient heathen notion of fate.
1881 Fowler Bacon 160 What are, somewhat uncouthly, called the Idealists, the Materialists, and the Dualists.
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