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Examples
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Then he was interrupted by a gentle voice, a voice of singing quality that pronounced his own uncooth English in accents that made of it a language of smooth beauty.
"Microcosmic Buccaneers" by Harl Vincent, part 4 Johnny Pez 2009
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Choosing to do that for his debut performance was really uncooth and tacky.
ABC Cancels Adam Lambert Good Morning America Peformance; Cancelled Following AMAs 2009
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I am sure Paul Krugman has never (cough) ever (cough) attacked a person (cough) because they were an outsider pointing out something in an uncooth and unfashionable way (cough cough).
"The trouble with Sanjay Gupta," says Paul Krugman, is seen in the way he "mugged" Michael Moore. Ann Althouse 2009
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I'd always shunned them as uncooth, until I heard Douglas Adams reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
i go forth 2005
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Someone always just “pops in” to tell me what an uncooth ruffian I am, and how I should not be “so mean”.
Think Progress » The United States is “losing the online war against terrorists.” 2006
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The shape was uncooth, the coloring ungraceful, and there was but the faint dawn of that divine sentiment, which in time elevated Roman art to the same eminence as the Grecian.
Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) Shearjashub Spooner 1834
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Obviously there is personal gain to be had out of doing right and standing for principle - thats poetic, not uncooth.
newmatilda.com - Comments ophelium 2009
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I troughed loads of it, all very uncooth really, but I simply could not help myself.
Toytown Germany - Germany feed mmoore 2008
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The new terms which they sig - nify their new notions by, though in process of time they are become familiar and trite, appeared novel and strange to the Greeks themselves; and therefore well may they look aukward and uncooth in Latin.
Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion 1812
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Et says dey haz tu approve et nawt sekkund & ai’m nawt shur y, coz ai did nawt use chikin-language oar sai aniifing uncooth!
i esspand for - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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