Adjective : uncouth behavior; an uncouth relative who embarrasses the family.    From Dictionary.com. 

So that still the uncouthness of such a procedure abideth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference

Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference

The time has passed when uncouthness of dress and manner can be taken as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference

The story is vaguely compelling, shot through with occasional snatches of uncouthness.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 April 06 « The BookBanter Blog] Reference

The roughness had been a little overdone, but it had added nothing to his own uncouthness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ayala's Angel] Reference

He ran after her to proclaim to her his love, and she, afraid of his wild uncouthness, fled before him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Myths] Reference

But to the ladies, his brutality signifieth strength and power; and his uncouthness, originality and genius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Rose] Reference

Their uncouthness gave a scruple of foppishness to M'I ver, and sent him seeking a razor in the widow's house.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

He too came West in a prairie schooner and remembers all its wildness, its uncouthness, its railroadless state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Valley] Reference

One is because he is unable, as it were, to bear with human fellowship on account of his uncouthness of mind; and this is beast-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

In both situations, they work as equal partners, understanding and forgiving foibles and, in the case of Sagittarius, general uncouthness.    From Wordnik.com.  [HerScopes] Reference

He instructed the Arabian to fashion him a charm that would overspread his ugly face with comeliness, change his uncouthness into geniality.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference

Happily she belonged to a generation which expected uncouthness in its men, and she merely felt convinced that this Mr. Denham was very, very clever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf] Reference

She saw but what she chose to see, and she chose always to see the best, avoiding coarseness and uncouthness without effort, as a matter of instinct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

The way they looked at her made her uncomfortable, she knew not why; while there was an uncouthness and roughness about them that did not please her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 2] Reference

The railroad-banks were hedged with Spanish bayonet, and in places with cactus grown into trees, all knees and elbows, and of a diabolical uncouthness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

By observing the refinements of the older nations, his uncouthness was softened: the rough barbarian cub was gradually mollified into the civil courtier.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Travellers of the Renaissance] Reference

No courtesy could have been more formal: precise, not slovenly, the salute of a gentleman who, in a foreign town, will not discredit his city by uncouthness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise Singer]

Page 303, Volume 2 the majority of artists who showed a detachment from reality, and displayed eccentricity admixed with mad - ness and uncouthness (Vasari, IV, 315).    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

"And why did the shadow of suspicion not fall upon him as strongly as it did upon my father?" cried the girl, dropping, in her earnestness, her assumed uncouthness of speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference

Dunbarth Ironthumb had fully possessed all the usual uncouthness of a dwarf, but he also had a sense of humor and was self-effacing, traits that had relaxed and amused Sithas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kinslayer Wars]

He laughed once, the hard bark that chilled her, that reminded her that for all his directness, the directness that bordered on uncouthness, he would be a dangerous adversary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Warrior]

Less excusable for the uncouthness of his verse is Matthew.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference

Notwithstanding the uncouthness of his garb, his manners were not unpolished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference

Its crudeness, the uncouthness of its people; the emptiness, the monotony, began to oppress her.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Firebrand' Trevison] Reference

He had a way of slouching when he moved that singularly intensified the general uncouthness of his appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)] Reference

He liked civil ways and smooth speech, and understood them far better than Master Shaw's brevity and uncouthness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories] Reference

His idea of indicating strength and manliness lay in displaying as much of brutality and uncouthness as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mucker] Reference

The uncouthness of my garb, my wild and weatherworn appearance, my fusil and tomahawk, could not but startle them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference

To her he looked more goodly than ever this afternoon, contrasted with the uncouthness of Halleck and others of her class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stanford Stories Tales of a Young University] Reference

And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

The only difficulty lay in his uncouthness, and in presenting to the heiress of the Picos a man who had been formerly her own servant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonauts of North Liberty] Reference