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loutish

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lout·ish  (loutsh)
adj.
Having the characteristics of a lout; awkward, stupid, and boorish.
loutish·ly adv.
loutish·ness n.
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Adj.1.loutish - ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"
boorish, neanderthal, oafish, swinish, neandertal
unrefined - (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
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He was a London boy, with a loutish air, a heavy fellow with the beginnings of a moustache on his lip and bushy eyebrows that joined one another across the bridge of his nose.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
It had been one of the wonders of their intercourse that from the first, she, the quicker, finer, more expressive, instead of crushing him by the contrast, had given him something of her own ease and freedom; but now he felt as heavy and loutish as in his student days, when he had tried to "jolly" the Worcester girls at a picnic.
Ethan Frome by Wharton, Edith View in context
look, fair Godmother Fleur-de-Lys, at that pretty dancer who is dancing on the pavement and playing the tambourine in the midst of the loutish bourgeois
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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