How to Use loutish in a Sentence

loutish

adjective

• Skepticism about the cult of the loutish writer goes back at least to the first century b.c.
  — Sarah Ruden, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
• Bellows seats us among the engaged, loutish spectators.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2017
• 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.
  — Clare McHugh, Time, 5 Apr. 2018
• 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.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2017
• Of course, there is something loutish about driving this very proper British convertible so barbarously fast—a little like putting four olives in your afternoon restorative at the Lord's Club.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 20 May 2020
• 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.
  — The Economist, 2 Jan. 2020
• If someone said something offensive or loutish, there was little fear of being hushed or contradicted.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2016
• And Maddon essentially letting Lackey be Lackey only enables the loutish behavior to continue, perhaps next time in October.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2017

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