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And though “Tony” doesn’t entirely lack that heady romanticization, its choice to amplify its introductory quote — making Bourdain an even more insufferable lout for dramatic effect — feels antithetical to Bourdain’s raw candor.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

The major debut is that of Alexander Birch Elliott, who’s Enrico as the drunken lout of your nightmares.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2022

At light speed, the action zips to Siberia, where it momentarily bogs down in an extended dance-off between a bald and shirtless Russian lout and Sonic and Tails.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2022

They’ll go on about how he was an ass, a lush, a lout, and — this is a word used both loadedly and lovingly — a prophet.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2021

But underneath it all she could not conceive that the boy the gypsies took away was the same lout who would eat half a suckling pig for lunch and whose flatulence withered the flowers.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

In other words, it's not people who don't actually tune in who are dismissing Congress as a bunch of louts.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2015

These louts are gonna have to watch this sometime.

From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2014

Juliet scowled—something else that the local louts found very endearing.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer