louts
Example Sentences
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The men in “Crooked Hallelujah” are rarely more than distant louts, some crueler than others.
From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2020
Like yours, there were good moments and bad, great bosses and real louts.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2020
A 2010 Vanity Fair reminiscence by James Verini wrote: “They call Ames and Taibbi, singly or in combination, children, louts, misogynists, madmen, pigs, hypocrites, anarchists, fascists, racists, and fiends.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2017
These louts are gonna have to watch this sometime.
From The New Yorker • May 29, 2014
“And to be absolutely sure, I’m leaving one of my bodyguards behind. Which of you louts volunteers for the duty?”
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
