Loutish meaning

Adjective: loutish

Pronunciation: (law-tish)

Loutish meaning: Ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behaviour or appearance

Synonyms: coarse, boorish, oafish, swinish, uncouth

Quotations: William S. Burroughs – Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this ugly spirit.

William S. Burroughs – What a horrible loutish planet this is. The dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.

Lynch Lawrence L – The loutish chap with red hair and a scarred cheek?

Paul de Kock – The tall, fair-haired youth came forward with the loutish air that never left him, and bowed sheepishly to Monsieur Guillardin.

Allen Chapman – He was a big, loutish boy, and had apparently come into town with a load to deliver.

David Christie Murray – The young men who composed it were without exception vulgar and loutish.

Sample sentences:

1. The loutish brains of the lower proletariat did not care to go beyond that obvious self-evident fact.
2. Why, there was a fourth, altogether too loutishly and innocently eating an apple as he strayed on!
3. A little black bunch of loutish crew with nothing to do, and we the first passengers served up to be jeered at.
4. At first sight he looked rather a dull, loutish boy, but his sharp, clear eyes somewhat redeemed his expression on a second glance.
5. They are strong athletic men, but loutish and heavy, and their features, though for the most part well formed, are vacant and devoid of expression.
6. At our universities, moreover, the more loutish types of student have been incited to attack and smash up the youths suspected of such reading.
7. She stepped aside quickly as he made a loutish thrust at her arm, as though to pinch her.
8. And then grew upon the mother a feeling that the young man had never been so little loutish before.
9. Once or twice in my freshman year some loutish sophomore had not stopped at making comments upon my religion.
10. I crossed the pavement with her to the loutish brownstone front-stoop of the boarding house; there she turned to dismiss me.
11. This goblin is loutish in shape and fiendish-looking, though so good to those who treat him well.
12. The unclean fires that consume the loutish and degenerate are not of love.
13. Jan too will have joined them by now, but he was loutish and clumsy.
14. The way they looked on a shelf made them so easily recognizable that even the most loutish illiterate could tell one from another.
15. He is very rustic, very cunning, very loutish, and, I should say, an innocent; the others are probably to match.