uncouthness
Lack of refinement
Uncouthness is the quality of being crude, awkward, or lacking in refinement.
It suggests rough manners or social gracelessness—behavior that marks someone as unsophisticated or unpolished: His uncouthness at the dinner party embarrassed everyone.
The word carries a note of distaste, implying the person should know better.
Crude, uncouth conduct
- crassnessTactless, unrefined behavior
- coarsenessRough or vulgar quality
- roughnessUneven surface quality
- rudenessDisrespectful social behavior
churlishness · loutishness · gruffness · brashness · indelicacy · insensitivity · bluntness · brusqueness
Narrow regional mindset
- backwardnessState of being undeveloped
- countrifiedHaving rural qualities
- ruralnessCountryside character
- unsophisticationLack of worldly experience
simplicity · homeliness · peasantry · outlandishness · boorishness · unworldliness
Indecent word or act
- profanityVulgar or obscene speech
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- indecencyOffensive or vulgar behavior
- bawdinessIndecent or vulgar quality
raunchiness · ribaldry · smut · foulness · impropriety · crudity · coarseness · tastelessness
Lack of worldly experience
- crudityUnrefined or vulgar quality
- primitivenessUndeveloped, basic quality
- rawnessUnrefined or exposed state
- barbarismSavage, uncivilized behavior
roughness · inelegance · philistinism · simpleness · artlessness · commonness · lowbrowness
Lack of physical grace
- gauchenessSocial ineptitude
- gracelessnessLack of smooth movement
- ungainlinessLack of physical grace
- maladroitnessLack of skill or coordination
inelegance · stiffness · lumbering · bumbling · fumbling · blundering · gawkiness · stumbling
boorishness
Crude, uncouth conduct
- crassnessTactless, unrefined behavior
- coarsenessRough or vulgar quality
- roughnessUneven surface quality
rudeness · churlishness · loutishness · gruffness · brashness · indelicacy · insensitivity · bluntness · brusqueness · tactlessness
provincialism
Narrow regional mindset
- backwardnessState of being undeveloped
- countrifiedHaving rural qualities
- ruralnessCountryside character
unsophistication · simplicity · homeliness · peasantry · outlandishness · boorishness · unworldliness
obscenity
Indecent word or act
- profanityVulgar or obscene speech
- lewdnessCrude sexual indecency
- indecencyOffensive or vulgar behavior
bawdiness · raunchiness · ribaldry · smut · foulness · impropriety · crudity · coarseness · tastelessness · sleaziness
unsophistication
Lack of worldly experience
- crudityUnrefined or vulgar quality
- primitivenessUndeveloped, basic quality
- rawnessUnrefined or exposed state
barbarism · roughness · inelegance · philistinism · simpleness · artlessness · commonness · lowbrowness
clumsiness
Lack of physical grace
- gauchenessSocial ineptitude
- gracelessnessLack of smooth movement
- ungainlinessLack of physical grace
maladroitness · inelegance · stiffness · lumbering · bumbling · fumbling · blundering · gawkiness · stumbling · woodenness
- gracelessnessclumsiness, awkwardness, boorishness, rudeness, vulgarity
- philistinismanti-intellectualism, boorishness, tastelessness
- bad mannersrudeness, impoliteness, discourtesy, incivility, disrespect
- savagerybarbarism, barbarity, brutality, brutishness, cruelty
uncouthnesspoliteness
Courteous, respectful conduct
refinement · courtesy · graciousness · civility · decorum
uncouthnesssophistication
Cultured elegance and complexity
cultivation · refinement · polish · worldliness · culture
cunning, acquaintance, uncouth, couth, uncountable, uncouthly