During the process wood-working tools would be used, as the student still was an "uncouth man" (German ungehobelt, unplaned).

Unfortunately Philip Masters was a shy and rather uncouth young man who had never had any kind of success in that direction.

He isn't the uncouth wild man any more that he was when he first came here, not at all.

They were rough uncouth men with the air of outcasts, unshaven and unwashed.

Wolf thought of Gould as a shrewd and uncouth man.

He was an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in the secrets of his science.

"That's because you're an ignorant, uncouth enlisted man."

When he is in this mode, he acts as an uncouth man who grew up in a slum.

A shy and uncouth young man is arrested and convicted of the murder.

At the periphery of his vision he saw the figures of uncouth men looming over him.