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  • 61unmanageability — Synonyms and related words: awkwardness, boorishness, bulkiness, bumblingness, clownishness, clumsiness, contumaciousness, contumacy, cumbersomeness, defiance, fractiousness, gawkiness, gawkishness, gracelessness, ham handedness, handful of… …

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  • 62vulgarism — Synonyms and related words: Babbittry, Gothicism, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, bombasticness, bourgeois taste, cacology, cacophony, camp, campiness, clumsiness, coarseness, colloquialism, corruption, crudeness, cumbrousness, dysphemism,… …

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  • 63vulgarity — Synonyms and related words: Gothicism, bad manners, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, baseness, bombasticness, cacology, cacophony, caddishness, clumsiness, coarseness, crudeness, cumbrousness, deficiency, discourteousness, discourtesy,… …

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  • 64uncouth — un|couth [ʌnˈku:θ] adj [: Old English; Origin: uncuth, from un + cuth known, familiar ] behaving and speaking in a way that is rude or socially unacceptable >uncouthly adv >uncouthness n [U] …

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  • 65bowery — (n.) farm, plantation, from Du. bowerij homestead farm (from the same source as BOWER (Cf. bower)); a Du. word probably little used in America outside New York, and there soon limited to one road, The Bowery, that ran from the built up part of… …

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  • 66ungainliness — un·gain·li·ness || ÊŒn geɪnlɪnɪs n. uncouthness, gracelessness, inelegance …

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  • 67Arkansas toothpick —    obsolete    a dagger    This is a sample entry, many weapons being given geographical attributions, either mocking the uncouthness of the local inhabitants or applauding their manliness:     ... the Kentucky abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay …

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  • 68glove money —    obsolete    a bribe    By ancient custom, you gave gloves to anyone who had done you a favour or might be persuaded to do so, concealing the bribe inside. Sir Thomas More, when Lord Chancellor of England, kept the gloves which Mrs Croaker gave …

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  • 69uncouth — adjective 1》 lacking good manners, refinement, or grace. 2》 archaic (of a place) uncomfortable because of remoteness or poor conditions. Derivatives uncouthly adverb uncouthness noun Origin OE uncūth unknown , from un 1 + cūth (past participle… …

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  • 70gaucherie — n. [Fr.] Uncouthness, awkwardness, blundering, bungling, lack of social polish …

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