Meaning of couth | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Social grace, refinement, sophistication; etiquette, manners.
   uncountable, usually
2. A person with social graces; a refined or sophisticated person.
   rare, uncountable, usually

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Examples

“That man has no couth.”

“There is an aspect of the cultural conservative argument that sometimes drifts dangerously close to tha view, elitist to the core, as elitist as the New Class, as elitist as limousine liberalism: The public ain't got no couth. You can hear those old-fashioned elitist wheels spinning: Maybe we need a few government regulations to deal with the couth shortage.”

“My daughters have long and inappropriately been members of the Committee to Reform Dad's Hygiene, taking me to task for my supposed lack of couth.”

“Couth and manners are intensely subjective concepts. Each culture has its own standards of acceptable table manners, for instance.”

“You got no couth, Ed. You was raised no-count is what you were. No count and you ain't got a lick of couth.”

“We transformed the uncouths into couths, the unkempts into kempts, the inerts into erts! We did it all by speaking to teen-agers on their own terms and in their own language.”

“I'm going to hit that "Gulf of Texas" beach with a bundle of couths and suaves because those Texas gals that hang around the big shrimp boats are used to good living.”

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