How to Use lout in a Sentence
lout
noun
- Howard's rude behavior at the country club earned him a reputation as a lout.
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Like yours, there were good moments and bad, great bosses and real louts.
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Chris Erskinecolumnist,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2020
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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.
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Charles McNulty,
latimes.com,
10 June 2018
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Also, be mindful of what’s on your shirt, the wrong phrase or picture can turn a seemingly nice guy into a lout.
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Elizabeth Wellington,
Philly.com,
30 May 2018
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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.
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Jon Fobes,
cleveland.com,
13 July 2017
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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.
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Frank Litsky,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2018
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A video caught Kalanick acting the part of privileged lout toward an Uber driver.
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Scott Canon,
kansascity.com,
26 June 2017
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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.
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The Economist,
2 Nov. 2017
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There was the permission Mr. Trump’s victory has given to louts and bullies to push women around.
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Katha Pollitt,
New York Times,
31 Mar. 2017
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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.
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Kyle Smith,
National Review,
11 Sep. 2019
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Every group has its louts, but where San Diego’s loss is foremost L.A.’s gain is, once again, the quality of people who pull on the lightning-bolt helmets.
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Tom Krasovic,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
15 June 2017
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His father was a real Irish lout—a bartender and an amateur boxer.
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Dave Schilling,
The New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2020
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One of the louts casually recalled an encounter with a onetime lady friend in graphic terms.
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Phil Rosenthal,
chicagotribune.com,
19 June 2018
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Are the trio of white male subway louts who attack Fleck fantasies of white-supremacist privilege?
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Armond White,
National Review,
2 Oct. 2019
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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.
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Dp Opinion,
The Denver Post,
26 June 2019
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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.
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Daniel D'addario,
chicagotribune.com,
7 June 2018
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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.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2021
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How much of his criticism of Donald Trump is statesmanship and how much is fraternal pique at the lout who humiliated Jeb?
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Peter Schjeldahl,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2017
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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.
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Ben Sachs,
Chicago Reader,
16 Mar. 2018
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The blistering nonfiction account, written by a morally dubious figure with months of White House access, portrayed President Trump as a venal lout with a toddler's grasp of the world.
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Jacob Lambert,
TheWeek,
19 June 2020
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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.
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John Timpane,
Philly.com,
17 Oct. 2017
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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.
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Marilyn Stasio,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2018
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Poor Tyrone Mings - the wonderful achievement and memory of making his debut for his country will forever be tainted by this cluster of louts, a situation that could have been avoided if the deserved full ban had been in place.
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SI.com,
16 Oct. 2019
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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.
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Nick Schager,
Variety,
8 Sep. 2021
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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.
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Michael S. Rosenwald,
Washington Post,
16 Dec. 2017
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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.
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Michael S. Rosenwald,
chicagotribune.com,
16 Dec. 2017
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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.
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Michael Phillips,
chicagotribune.com,
18 June 2019
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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.
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Justin Chang,
latimes.com,
29 Mar. 2018
- Howard's rude behavior at the country club earned him a reputation as a lout.
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Like yours, there were good moments and bad, great bosses and real louts.
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Chris Erskinecolumnist,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2020
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