loutish

Related to loutish: placating

lout·ish

(lou′tĭsh)

adj.

Having the characteristics of a lout; awkward, stupid, and boorish.

lout′ish·ly adv.

lout′ish·ness n.

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loutish

(ˈlaʊtɪʃ)

adj

characteristic of a lout; unpleasant and uncouth

ˈloutishly adv

ˈloutishness n

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Adj.

loutish - ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"

boorish, neanderthal, oafish, swinish, neandertal

unrefined - (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"

loutish

adjective oafish, rough, gross, coarse, bungling, churlish, stolid, boorish, gawky, uncouth, lumpen (informal), ill-bred, lumpish, swinish, clodhopping (informal), doltish, unmannerly, ill-mannered, lubberly I was appalled by the loutish behaviour.

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فَظ

hulvátský

lømmelagtig

durgslegur

loutish

[ˈlaʊtɪʃ] ADJ → grosero, maleducado

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loutish

[ˈlaʊtɪʃ] adj [person] → rustre; [behaviour] → de rustre

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loutish

adj → rüpelhaft, flegelhaft

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loutish

[ˈlaʊtɪʃ] adj → rozzo/a, da zotico/a

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lout

(laut) noun

a clumsy, ill-mannered boy or man.

ˈloutish adjective

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He was a London boy, with a loutish air, a heavy fellow with the beginnings of a moustache on his lip and bushy eyebrows that joined one another across the bridge of his nose.

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It had been one of the wonders of their intercourse that from the first, she, the quicker, finer, more expressive, instead of crushing him by the contrast, had given him something of her own ease and freedom; but now he felt as heavy and loutish as in his student days, when he had tried to "jolly" the Worcester girls at a picnic.

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look, fair Godmother Fleur-de-Lys, at that pretty dancer who is dancing on the pavement and playing the tambourine in the midst of the loutish bourgeois!"

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It was very sad that on Friday night these families had to endure the loutish behaviour of so many inebriated Blues fans and their constant choruses of their 'S*** on the Villa' anthem.

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The educational institution where this incident took place should take strict disciplinary action against the culprit so that others dare not resort to such loutish acts.

Peeping Tom

It comes after former UKIP leader Nigel Farage described his former party as containing a "loutish fringe" he said people wouldn't vote for "a party that is linked to violence, criminal records and thuggery".

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And he hopes that the loutish behaviour can be stamped out of Scottish football altogether.

Missiles warning

EIGHT police cars were called to deal with brawling passengers on a bus route which was recently suspended and then reinstated following antisocial and loutish behaviour.

Brawl breaks out on night bus

If there's any likely neddish, hooligan, loutish or petty criminal behaviour, the parents should be the ones who bring it to the attention of the authorities if they can't deal with it themselves.

Problem children; Letters.

EIGHT police cars were called to deal with brawling passengers on a night bus that was recently suspended because of antisocial and loutish behaviour.

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I've said it before until I'm blue in the face and I shall say it again - have the parents of these loutish youths who cause havoc with anti-social behaviour no idea what they are up to?

Whatever happened to disciplining kids?

"Air rage" fuelled by alcohol is a growing concern, with one-in-six flyers experiencing loutish behaviour in the past three years.