Meaning & use
couth
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Showing good manners, refinement, or social polish.
See it in a sentence
His couth manner at the dinner party impressed the host's parents.
She acted with such couth that no one guessed she'd grown up on a farm.
A note on using this word
Couth is a "back-formation" from "uncouth" and is rarely used outside of humorous or deliberately old-fashioned speech; "uncouth" remains far more common.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
uncouthcrude
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