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