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uncouth-looking

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Examples

  • And now the old man handed me the book; a strange and uncouth-looking volume enough.

    Lavengro 2004

  • β€œAnd who is this young lady?” said I, motioning to the uncouth-looking girl.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • 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

  • 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 ....

    The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

  • As I advanced, some twenty or thirty of the most uncouth-looking fellows imaginable came forward to meet me.

    Eothen 2003

  • A ragged and uncouth-looking man grabbed hold of her.

    Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995

  • He poked a thumb at Libby's uncouth-looking "space drive."

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • He poked a thumb at Libby's uncouth-looking "space drive."

    Methuselah's Children Heinlein, Robert A. 1958

  • They were a wild, uncouth-looking crowd from the adjacent farms.

    A Woman's Part in a Revolution Natalie Harris Hammond

  • '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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