How to Use loutish in a Sentence

loutish

adjective
  • Leger finds him on a yacht, but before much is said, a loutish boat captain arrives to entice them with booze, heroin and women.
    — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Every great festival lineup needs an eccentric art-pop groundbreaker and some loutish guys who write anthems.
    — Al Shipley, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
  • 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 Trump’s domineering, loutish approach to women spoke to its adherents in a way that few, if any, of his rivals could match.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • At one point Jan, distracted by Kasia’s upcoming sonogram, is being drilled by his loutish captain.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The four leads are overconfident and loutish, spending their time drinking, rambling, and clumsily working through their worries about the future.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Mays’ Salieri is at once aghast at such loutish behavior and bitterly envious that Mozart is exceptional enough to get away with it.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • His loutish gimmick of the week is an obnoxious get-ready-with-me tutorial that the rest of his Chamber mates, unfortunately, can’t scroll past.
    — Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Yet this film’s strong proto-feminist stance, in which two young women seek new, urban lives in Budapest while regularly battling loutish men, proves its biggest draw.
    — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Even Lochlan and Piper, who think of themselves as more enlightened than their loutish brother and materialistic parents, have a lot of Victoria in them.
    — Noel Murray, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • McNally is known for dishing dirt on his celebrity clientele, exposing loutish diners, and waxing philosophical about Manhattan cultural mores.
    — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The nation and the world have long since become accustomed to Trump’s loutish behavior, coarse vocabulary and disrespect for the dignity of his office and America’s reputation.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Both Steve and Nick turn a blind eye to the way their mostly white clientele single out the token dancer of color for particularly loutish objectification, grabbing Otis’s head for a kiss or reaching inside his briefs despite his clear discomfort.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022

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