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Word entry · 5 letters

couth

Best crossword clue

"Refined in manners"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈkuːθ/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted chotuStarts with CEnds with H1 clues
1C2O3U4T5H

Definitions

  1. (used facetiously) refined and well-mannered

Word origin

Back-formation from uncouth.

Used in a sentence

  • Squad leaders were responsible for doing periodic checks to make sure soldiers were living a couth lifestyle, as Joes would compete regularly to see whose room was nicer.
  • So Dennis May thrilled me in a recent issue when he described Raymond Mays' 1939 E.R.A. racer as a "couth" little Merc-like model.
  • Yet the dancers are beautiful, their cool movement has a couth simplicity, and there are moments when a gesture of almost absolute beauty stands transfixed in some transom of sublime comprehension.

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