uncouth

英 [ʌnˈkuːθ]

美 [ʌnˈkuːθ]

adj.  粗鲁的; 无礼的; 无教养的

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BNC.20264 / COCA.27951

牛津词典

adj.

• 粗鲁的；无礼的；无教养的
  rude or socially unacceptable
  1. uncouth laughter
     粗野的笑声
  2. an uncouth young man
     一个无教养的年轻人

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （人）粗野的，粗鄙的，粗鲁的
  If you describe a person asuncouth, you mean that their behaviour is rude, noisy, and unpleasant.
  1. ...that oafish, uncouth person.
     那个蠢笨粗野的家伙

英英释义

adj

• lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
  1. he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind
  2. behavior that branded him as common
  3. an untutored and uncouth human being
  4. an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy
  5. appealing to the vulgar taste for violence
  6. the vulgar display of the newly rich
  Synonym:coarsecommonrough-cutvulgar

双语例句

• It's dirty and has an uncouth culture.
  那里脏兮兮的，文化又粗俗。
• Used of persons and their behavior; not refined; uncouth. Although it is often vulgar and unrefined, its implied meaning can be both deep and eloquent.
  用来指人和他们的行为；不文雅的；粗俗的；。它虽然不雅，甚至粗俗，但却具有极强的表意功能。
• The sibyl(" witch "is such an uncouth label) responded with a supply constriction designed to drive up the price.
  女预言家（女巫听上去让人不太舒服）用限制供应的方法来应对，意在推升价格。
• We found your Cotter Pyke to be an uncouth and unpleasant man, quarrelsome and niggardly.
  我们发现你的部下卡特·派克不仅粗鲁讨厌，动不动就吵架，而且还是个吝啬鬼。
• He behaves in a most uncouth way.
  他的举止真是笨拙。
• ( of behavior) rustic and uncouth. was boorish and insensitive; the loutish manners of a bully; her stupid oafish husband; aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude.
  （指举止）粗俗笨拙。是粗野愚钝的；欺凌弱小者的粗鄙的举止；她愚钝的丈夫。
• He is a selfish, uncouth fellow, who has no respect for anyone.
  他是个自私、没教养的家伙，对人一点也不尊重。
• His nephew is an uncouth young man.
  他的侄子是一个粗野的年轻人。
• Lacking the graces and refinement of civilized life; uncouth.
  粗暴的，粗野的：缺少文明生活的文雅和教养的；不雅的。
• The pathway among the woods seemed wilder, more uncouth with its rude natural obstacles and less trodden by the foot of man than he remembered it on his outward journey.
  那林间小路在他看来，比他记忆中来时的途径，似是更加蛮荒，由于天然的高低不平面更加坎坷，而且更少有人迹了。