| 词汇 | couth |
| 释义 | couth adjective UKhumorousuk /kuːθ/ us /kuːθ/ (of a person or their behaviour) polite and with a pleasant appearance（人或举止）文雅的;有礼貌的 Note:This word is used humorously as the opposite of uncouth. Polite and respectful candy coat candy-coated chivalric chivalrous chivalrously courtly deferential deferentially euphemism for someone/something euphemistic hyper-civilized keep a civil tongue in your headidiom manner minced oath mind/watch your mannersidiom tactful tactfully ultra-civilized ultra-refined urbane Examples of couthcouth We forgot the barked cautions of our mothers and fathers, all the promises we'd made to be civilized and ladylike, couth and kempt. From NPR After they have gotten to know the story well, students pair up to tease out the meaning of words like lycanthropic, couth and kempt. From NPR These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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