Adjective

(en-adj)

(archaic) Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.

* 1819 : , The Sketch Book (The Voyage)

There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols.

Clumsy, awkward.

Unrefined, crude.

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.

Being in, or causing, disturbance or unrest.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.}}