How to Use lout in a Sentence

lout

noun
  • Howard's rude behavior at the country club earned him a reputation as a lout.
  • Like yours, there were good moments and bad, great bosses and real louts.
    — Chris Erskinecolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The league’s most popular player has become its biggest lout.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026
  • The prince finds sour amusement in the way the old lout can talk his way out of any cowardly mischief, but his mind is elsewhere.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 June 2018
  • Also, be mindful of what’s on your shirt, the wrong phrase or picture can turn a seemingly nice guy into a lout.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 30 May 2018
  • His father was a real Irish lout—a bartender and an amateur boxer.
    — Dave Schilling, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2020
  • One of the louts casually recalled an encounter with a onetime lady friend in graphic terms.
    — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
  • But now the city’s residents, fed up with freewheeling, drunken louts on their streets, have worked in tandem to pressure the council to act.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Are the trio of white male subway louts who attack Fleck fantasies of white-supremacist privilege?
    — Armond White, National Review, 2 Oct. 2019
  • To their immense credit, Oasis didn’t traffic in peace-and-love twaddle but reveled in their roles as snarling pub louts who became kings of the pop world.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Instead, Rosen is trying to sort out the whims, whines, shouts and pouts of a dozen athletes, some of whom are not loath to turn into louts at the slightest provocation.
    — Frank Litsky, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
  • According to the cultured Romans, the Scots were barbarians, crude, strange-speaking louts who wouldn't stay in their own yard and had to be fenced in for the good of the empire.
    — Jon Fobes, cleveland.com, 13 July 2017
  • The major debut is that of Alexander Birch Elliott, who’s Enrico as the drunken lout of your nightmares.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • My letter to the editor would have emasculated those louts for ignoring not just Pat Bowlen, but so many other great Broncos over the years.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 26 June 2019
  • Just picture some lout like, say, Biff from Back to the Future, and imagine his face upon learning a hot candy character swapped stilettos for practical block heels.
    — Diane Brady, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Amid the crises of cinema and history, Alana gets her overflowing good will and untapped competence into gear, and Gary, a lout in the making, learns to be not just a man but a mensch.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The original series, which aired on Bravo in the early 2000s, was fueled by a sort of culture-clash comedy between gay aesthetes and straight louts.
    — Daniel D'addario, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018
  • Spieldenner adds little in the way of charm or sympathy, presenting his pugnacious carnie as less a seducer than a lout, and more in tune with the antisocial protagonist of Molnar’s play.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The scenes involving Cactus Bill are more successful; Rudd clearly enjoys playing the lout, and there’s a world-weariness to his performance that reflects the sordid environment.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Knowing that Seb is a two-timing lout, Pippa is soon compelled to more actively interfere in a relationship that doesn’t concern her, leading to apparent tragedy and then further domestic strife between her and Thomas.
    — Nick Schager, Variety, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Both actors acquit themselves as champions of the unblinking gaze, suggesting everything Marion and Christian would like to do if only Marion weren’t married to an (unseen) lout of a husband.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2019
  • And like most of the Korean film directors who crop up in Hong's playfully self-reflexive movies, So is a font of friendly, charming conversation but will eventually reveal himself to be a drunken, pathetic lout.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • On the show - which is factually inspired but dramatized for maximum Netflix pleasure - Prince Philip is portrayed as an impolite lout, a womanizer, a whiner, a sore sport and even a potential Nazi.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 2017
  • On the show — which is factually inspired but dramatized for maximum Netflix pleasure — Prince Philip is portrayed as an impolite lout, a womanizer, a whiner, a sore sport and even a potential Nazi.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2017
  • John Gallagher, the only gentleman in this fraternity of uncouth louts, is immediately drawn to Betty Broadbent, the bright 15-year-old daughter of the woman who manages the hotel where the journalists are camped out.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018

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