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The concept itself is counterintuitive: The Colonies are on the brink of war; George Washington is out in the field, preparing to face the mighty British army with a ragtag crew of drunken louts with chilblains; and we’re stuck in a hot, fly-blown room in Philadelphia watching the Second Continental Congress in what feels like real time.

She despises what’s happening to her country, and she deplores some Russian soldiers who are drunks and louts.

The Evening Standard newspaper described the artists in it as “louts,” and the BBC was repelled by their “gory images of dismembered limbs” and “explicit pornography.”

Trump devotees keenly feel the slights against their "right" to be racist, sexist louts — that's what all the "cancel culture" whining is about — and Trump has channeled that larger and inchoate cloud of entitled whining into his own set of often idiosyncratic bellyaches.

From Salon

Louts overrun the otherwise peaceful seaside town of Lorne, on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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