How to Use loutish in a Sentence
loutish
adjective
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Skepticism about the cult of the loutish writer goes back at least to the first century b.c.
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Sarah Ruden,
National Review,
23 Jan. 2020
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Bellows seats us among the engaged, loutish spectators.
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Brian T. Allen,
National Review,
2 Sep. 2017
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One of Faith’s acolytes, Greer Kadetsky, is a lovely, bookish young woman who has a gross encounter with a loutish frat boy during her first week of college.
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Clare McHugh,
Time,
5 Apr. 2018
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Javier Ferreira's Will, entranced by the streets and stages of London, moves from an earnest schoolteacher haunted by memories of his loutish father to a man who trusts his own will and heart.
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Kerry Reid,
chicagotribune.com,
7 June 2017
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Darts staggered out of the pub and onto television in the 1970s, but low viewing-figures and a loutish reputation eventually led broadcasters and sponsors to pull the plug.
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The Economist,
2 Jan. 2020
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If someone said something offensive or loutish, there was little fear of being hushed or contradicted.
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Declan Walsh,
New York Times,
15 Nov. 2016
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And Maddon essentially letting Lackey be Lackey only enables the loutish behavior to continue, perhaps next time in October.
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David Haugh,
chicagotribune.com,
16 Sep. 2017
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