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Meanings of loutish in English

Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance.

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Usage of loutish in English
1
The young men who composed it were without exception vulgar and loutish.
The Making Of A Novelist / An Experiment In Autobiography
2
A loutish-looking young man brought up the rear with the third donkey.
Robert Falconer
3
Only after I was struck myself by a very large loutish bully.
For the love of mike
4
Threatened and hectored in his own house by a loutish, daubing plough-boy!
Under the Skylights
5
That he succeeded was the appropriate riposte to such mean-spirited and loutish behaviour.
The Irish Times
6
It's that loutish trick of putting red pepper on a fire.
The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics
7
A worthy man, but loutish and slow like one of his own hookers.
The Path of the King
8
A loutish backwoods child, like Dennis Hanks or Tom Sparrow or anybody else.
The Path of the King
9
Hob went on in a gruff tone: 'The insolence of these loutish lads!
The Herd Boy and His Hermit
10
What a ridiculous, loutish figure he would cut in her eyes!
The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig: A Novel
11
Populism, name-calling and loutish behaviour seem to have taken the place of thoughtful argument.
The Irish Times
12
Garcia may not like Trump's loutish remarks, but she remains firmly in his camp.
The Guardian
13
A big, loutish fellow with an ungainly walk stepped forward.
Andy the Acrobat / Or, Out with the Greatest Show on Earth
14
He looked like some loutish knight be-riddled by a troll.
Blood Meridian
15
Startin' with that loutish white uncle of yours, Pee Wee cried, snapping his neck.
God don't like ugly
16
There is the loutish outlander, who boasted before the duke that he would fight me.
Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy
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