How to Use louche in a Sentence

louche

adjective
  • There is potential here for camp, for glamour, for something louche and nasty and over-the-top.
    — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • These likable, louche fellows encourage Gordy to loosen up, have some fun.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Kalman looked smart by her side in a summer shirt, louche trousers and Doc Martens Derby shoes.
    — Alice Cary, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Suits are cut with louche, wide-legged trousers; rakish field jackets often stand in for traditional sport coats.
    — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Or, by another name — a name that sounds satisfyingly louche — strip malls.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The parents are louche, disinterested in their kids.
    — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
  • This tendency towards a kind of louche, showy entitlement did not begin with the drama.
    — The Economist, 11 June 2020
  • In spite of its smaller size, Kahlo’s painting seems to outglow Rivera’s fun, louche landscape portrait.
    — oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Strangers were discouraged from visiting, and rumors spread of louche parties behind the castle’s walls.
    — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022
  • So was the creator of these images a louche outsider, a kind of Mannerist Tom of Holland?
    — New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Their house had been the absolute crossroads of thrilling louche Hollywood and the crackling world of ideas that was pouring in from the East.
    — Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
  • Follow his lead with tactile cords in a louche, unstructured silhouette that’s more style-savvy than professorial.
    — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 4 Dec. 2021
  • So an ocean of booze (with its attendant narcotics, violence and human trafficking) flows every evening on the louche fringes of Soho.
    — Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The coat-and-scarf combo, by contrast, appeared to take its cues from ‘70s fashion, projecting a polished yet louche quality.
    — Edward Barsamian, Vogue, 6 July 2017
  • This louche, beautiful Art Deco brasserie, dating from 1927, used to be one of my first stops in Paris.
    — WSJ, 14 June 2021
  • Zegna came to Malibu to make entreaties to the American fashion market with its colorful, louche new wares.
    — Dave Schilling contributing follow, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
  • Berlin, where painters and photographers like Christian Schad and Otto Dix made a virtue of hard surfaces and louche life.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • My rational mind knows the sculpture is tacky and borderline offensive, yet my reptilian brain loves its louche effervescence.
    — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Lawrence owns the louche Morton and Christie styles, as well as plenty of quietly luxurious accessories from the label.
    — Alice Cary, Vogue, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Spliced together with traditional menswear prints like tartan and repp stripes, the antique patterns take on new life in a range of louche silk shirts, trousers and double-face scarves as well as robes and blankets.
    — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2021
  • For those who would have liked to imagine Rimbaud as a reporter, the louche French poet Michaux might make the perfect guide to the East in the thirties.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 June 2022
  • From the 1960s through the aughts, this American’s louche designs propelled the idea that an outfit should compliment the woman—not the other way around.
    — Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
  • With a louche silhouette, a bootiful backside and river-stone smoothness, the 230i Coupe is affordably gorgeous—enough but not too much, swag wise.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 19 May 2022
  • Like Corsair in Nashville, Gate Eleven offers tours, absinthe history and, of course, louche ceremonies.
    — David Cook, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Thrones’ vast number of clans includes the wealthy and louche Lannisters, including incestuous twins Cersei and Jaime.
    — TIME.com, 30 June 2017
  • Instead, The Standard, Ibiza, presents itself as a bolthole for an in-the-know, sophisticated, and louche crowd that wants a bit of buzz but without any over-the-top hoopla.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The Duke, on the other hand, is louche and unctuous, the human personification of privilege lounging in a fabulous dressing gown.
    — Hugh Ryan, Town & Country, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Oscar Isaac, with louche long hair and a snaky hostility, plays Nick Toches (or, rather, the fictional version of him from the novel), a journalist who’s a hipster-outlaw legend.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The film is also the director’s love letter to a bygone Los Angeles era, a lost world of louche glamor, with actors, directors, hippies, and hustlers roaming the city’s studio lots, canyons, and hills.
    — Jay Glennie, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The louche clothes, the wood-and-wallpaper decor, the soundtrack, the getting-high-and-angling-for-a-threesome hedonism all looked very Boogie Nights/American Hustle.
    — Rose Maura Lorre, Vulture, 18 June 2021

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