Social grace, refinement, sophistication; etiquette, manners.
That man has no couth.
A person with social graces; a refined or sophisticated person.
We transformed the uncouths into couths, the unkempts into kempts, the inerts into erts! We did it all by speaking to teen-agers on their own terms and in their own language.
From Middle English couth (“familiar, known; evident, true; famous, respected, well-known; genteel, having good manners”), from Old English cūþ (“familiar, intimate, known, usual; certain, plain, mani...
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