It also means uncivilized, uncouth, barbarous, savage. The term is contemptuous, essentially describing someone seen to be uncouth and rural. A more uncouth clumsy machine can scarcely be imagined. Rutledge, noticed that Lee was arrogant and uncouth and unfit to control the militia. Swift and twisting rivers made people "greedy, uncouth, and warlike". In fact they are filthy and recklessly uncouth. Estella rejects Pip for this rude, uncouth but well-born man, and ends Pip's hope. Willie is an uncouth and unpleasant character, though is essentially harmless. Wolf thought of Gould as a shrewd and uncouth man. Football is excluded from school and hates his uncouth, verbally abusive mother. It was considered brazen and uncouth to wear makeup. Save by strange names uncouth to English ears. The Sidhe's possession had various side-effects in Elena, such as clumsiness and uncouth behavior. Traditionally, a woman who laughed too loudly was considered to be uncouth and ill-bred. Uncouth but brave, he was adept in horse riding and archery.