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Examples
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And now the old man handed me the book; a strange and uncouth-looking volume enough.
Lavengro 2004
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βAnd who is this young lady?β said I, motioning to the uncouth-looking girl.
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HIS pen, his style, his spirit might be observed in every line of the uncouth-looking old volume β the air, the style, the spirit of the writer of the book which first taught me to read.
Lavengro 2004
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There was a pale light from the afterglow of sunset; a streak of light cut its way through a narrow, uncouth-looking cloud, which seemed sometimes like a boat and sometimes like a man wrapped in a quilt ....
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As I advanced, some twenty or thirty of the most uncouth-looking fellows imaginable came forward to meet me.
Eothen 2003
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A ragged and uncouth-looking man grabbed hold of her.
Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995
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He poked a thumb at Libby's uncouth-looking "space drive."
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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He poked a thumb at Libby's uncouth-looking "space drive."
Methuselah's Children Heinlein, Robert A. 1958
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They were a wild, uncouth-looking crowd from the adjacent farms.
A Woman's Part in a Revolution Natalie Harris Hammond
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'Will we want any of _them_?' asked Jones, pointing to an upper shelf in the closet, on which was lying a number of uncouth-looking instruments, the nature of which was best known to themselves.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various
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