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lout

[laut] / laʊt /


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The league’s most popular player has become its biggest lout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

"It's possible that their lout of a client insisted that the lawyers waste their meeting with general grievances about prosecutorial misconduct that already have been rejected by the courts," tweeted former U.S.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2023

His name is Neil Gibson, in homage, one assumes, to the cyberpunk writers Neil Stephenson and William Gibson, even though he’s a lout and, to the best of my knowledge, Stephenson and Gibson are not.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2023

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

With a barrage of squeals, the guests gathered around him, leaving the black-leather lout with no one to torture.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

“For seven years, he had more than his share of knuckleheads, louts, losers and prima donnas,” former Washington Post sports columnist Michael Wilbon once wrote of Mr. Unseld’s checkered tenure as head coach.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020

Like yours, there were good moments and bad, great bosses and real louts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2020

They represented someone’s cynical fantasy of the masses, a coalition of louts and groupies and wasted youths who, come to think of it, probably weren’t even reading rock criticism in the first place.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2014

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




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