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UK
/lˈaʊtɪʃ/
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ADJECTIVE
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ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
the loutish manners of a bully
was boorish and insensitive
her stupid oafish husband
aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude
How To Use loutish In A Sentence
- Worse the loutish boys galumphed over and started acting as unwanted ballboys for our game.
- Post-Civil-War America therefore seemed to exhibit the worst kind of small-minded, lacklustre parochialism, but it had coupled it with a loutish popularism.
- He is a resolutely loutish, wantonly violent thug.
- After years of derision and association with loutish behaviour, lager is mounting a fightback. After real ale, brewers cash in on trend for 'real lagers'
- ‘You are both a disgrace to your regiments and your country due to your loutish behaviour,’ he said.
- After the short ceremony, these loutish tourists shambled off in their jeans and high nuisance-factor anoraks.
- The sluttish,drunken and loutish way women behave in Britain was a shock to me when I first came here. [cry rape] sorting out the truth from the lies
- A bowler-hatted type of military bearing reacted, blocking their progress and remonstrating with them for their loutish behaviour. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
- She was not condoning loutish behaviour, but expressing concern for the much-vaunted evening economy - a favourite phrase I believe, of Bolton Council.
- They are a tight-knit community with people of status at the helm, but even their best efforts cannot control the lunatic, bullying, and loutish few.